FROM UNDERNEATH THE GINKGO TREE

in my heart I found you long ago,

there,

where is this heart in the world-

is it invincible,

how much heated life does burn,

to cool the umbers to the end of time,

will we kiss underneath the mulberry tree,

will we dance underneath a full moon until three or maybe two,

can we share the minutes until June or maybe after,

will you touch me in that old remembered way when I’m ninety-two,

you brush my face always as if I sparked somewhere the life in you,

never forgotten, never unspoken, never covered over the ice of winters barren soul,

i love you now- I loved you then,

i will forget until the sun shines,

i’ll bare my shoulder to feel the warmth of summer,

i’ll bare my thoughts to hear your smile within your song,

enough for, what is enough, I wish plenty more,

unite with me in my thoughts, unite with me in my like for life I thirst,

united, let’s begin the play,

earlier are the foraged, emptied into the sky,

earliest was the expectation from some misguided oceans somehow there, yet fish unknown everywhere,

late a spill of robust laughter softly, innocently, good,

will we be that way, now and ever after,

with dimmer lights, and all the moon has said,

brighter amber lamps, even after everything is understood,

nothing disregarded,

no terror of the crimson blue will shed,

i’ll catch your tear drop if you should ever need,

deeply, I say, deeply, it’s a bitter modern day to treat with care, and care folding, very kind,

you’ve found me, be it here, nor

swim to catch me, I see butterflies in a sea of you,

i will,

fly brightly,

fly softly until,

mornings are like every spring,

eyes of mine meet me day by day,

not one good memory washed to far,

stay, longer, until the umber’s warmth, fades, from underneath the ginkgo tree,

i say, hide, friend of mine, before the life to live is gone away….

Written September 2010

TRACEE PICKETT