Indras net (what belongs to the familiar)

around her head a sardine circlet
around her foot mortality
around her voice a glittering corset
around her heart a memory

she reflected on the dawnlight
she was setting in her place
she looked sober in the photo
but you couldn’t see her face

eye for eye and cell to cell
did you knot me to be brave
did you tie me from a shoestring
toss my frame across the wave

name the garnet in my cherry
your horizon on the deep deep wine
as i lost count of drowning
for the promise of a rhyme

for your blessed rage to swallow
i was waiting at the altar
and a pearl was burning bitter-sweet
when i tasted your salt water

when i saw you in the restaurant yesterday
and you finally appeared
Indras net was drawing closer
Indras net was catching tears

when you saw that i was deadly
when you wrote my rib in two
i was made and i was unmade
to make better love to you

and every lace undoing
to find the heart of sand
and every mark to fill the worth of a blade
with the imprint of her hand

and every glass was melting thunder
to the predatory corner
and a little death for the purities of power
to the mountain out her window

to the wildflowers evening color
to the sky and sea and weather
to the darker voice that rose
to the horses all untethered

she heard it was one million
she heard one million seven
the circle dreamed it would be easy
the fishes knew it would be heaven

you know my situation
you know what keeps me here
you know ocean is an islands final word
and what belongs to the familiar