Distinguishable Outlines

Distinguishable Outlines
For Jamie on our half year as a husband and wife

Approaching a dusked corner on black winged skies,
I recall rough edges of memories
When absence widened my mourning

Yes, you arrive on vows that cry out

Piercing thresholds of muted voices

Yes, these scales, they are falling

Yes, your hands can free me of all these haunts I cling to

Narrowed days, when your body comforts in its sharing
Under shadows of voice
An uplifted arm

You teach me to ascend

Half-hearted slumber, a reluctant arrival,
You sigh into a crumpled kneeling
My eyes observe from a distance

And this beautiful miracle of sighing

And again, I am discovering a renewal of these vows
Surprised by collisions that echo

We hope
We live

We lament
We are here

Stumbling under this grace and

Knowing

This unveiling of a ragged life into something so

Incomprehensibly beautiful…