Blue before dawn

Poetry created and installed during residency at Parco Dei Sesi, Pantelleria, 2021

Dig your hands into the immortal love-steam furnace

let the lichen guide you where to touch

listen to stone gliding on stone

this is the place

this is the place where

you come home

Pink wet on the hawk hardened wind a wild flower song

belly crater of the world

all of your hard edges smoothing slowly through time towards an oblivion of water

just as the sun sets it rises again

blue before dawn

only the wind is awake