and so i enter you
i find you right away
see you as i walk in
know you
you are mine
my soul opens up
in the knowing
you are in this room
and still i walk
the gallery of others
try on the could bes
and almost decide to go
with newer choices
keeping away from my love
but in the end
in the beginning
and the middle
and the end
i claim you
you claim me
with that father’s hand
black skin joy
under yellow sun
all your knuckles
outlined in your
reach
toward
heaven
and i lay down
underneath you
and look up to
reach as you
are reaching
with my hand
that fits in yours
and i
wander
up through
the yellow desert
to the book of love
layed open
and finger your
weary binding
and caress your
rusty longing
and remember
i met you first
in your book
of words
and i look up
up to the heaven
you reach for
i contemplate
the climb
i find
exalted
the red woman
i am
arms upstretched
to an exalted sky
triumph
joy
heaven
we will climb
one day home
inspired by the opportunity to enter mary mountcastle eubank's painting: book ladder tree 2, currently on view at the JFKU Arts & Consciousness Gallery at 2956 San Pablo Avenue, 2nd Floor, Berkeley, CA, through 4/19/07.
