heirloom

sowing into foreign tribe

chain-breaker, song-maker

obeys persistently

in transmitting overflow

paints joy upon the mire —

rewrites what it means

to know blue, and they’ll know you

where you’ll live pressed lilies

and unsung epilogues

where my home be glorified

and my nieces laugh

they’ll know you

in ancestral kindness

that killed my serpent’s tongue

you dream me up into this world

with clean imaginings

sovereign sunlight suspending

raging whirlwind’s wasted-daze

in spaces vast in rib’s ravine

anointed hands protected

from shards of self

in the in-betweens

welcome reach across unbelief

along the sunken drunk divide

arise, and show yourself strong

my book of doorways,

my ark of brand-news

they’ll know you

where all you feel is writhing realm

emoting ethereal odyssey

each dimension spinning eternal

against or across all somewheres

swarming butterflies button-eyed

adorn my corpse, and happily

sewing little hymns

into segmented ligament

to make me one with the flowers

that teem and flow from merciful skies

they’ll know you where i plant you

in loves down every line