Wildness
Be wild as salmon
Be wild as starlings
Be wild as lichen
Be wild as night moths
June 21, 2002
throwing your heart ahead of you
up the long ladder of belligerent water
to a still and fragile hope.
flooding the trees with dark bravado
before you make insanity's bright leap
into perfect, empty air.
living on stone and harrowing wind,
relentless as glaciers in your advance
across the flinty lap of time.
singing your fierce, white songs
as you fling the burnt offering
of your body to the light.
Copyright © Amy Belding Brown