theshookfoil:

—- ROUGH DRAFT —-

Purple Gallinule: Medium bird with purple-blue

upperparts washed with iridescent green and

deep blue.. Undertail coverts are white. The

flight is labored and slow with dangling legs.

I broke like a god—riotous

and split with love. There was a

rusty chain link fence:

on one side, my heart, like

something diseased, festered.

I have known failure. Yet on

the other side, my milky

sphere of a soul hovered

slightly above the ground, waiting.

How to fuse these efforts?

How to become one?

I want to be firm, yet jarred:

flecked with gold

like the dirt in Mesa.

I want the cool sweep of night

to find me pure

and unbound, guiltless

as the purple gallinule

rising up

to be bathed in shimmering heat.

 -Aumaine Gruich