You embrace me in song
YOU my love
beautifully PINK and FLAMINGO 
twisting prismatic flickers of light

YOU with your radio towers
your sticky things that are sweet
bugs and fruit and mould

and your bones and dust
your churning earth
the gaping hollow places that expect

your empty graves 
happy 
although they miss what they have lost

I too
I want to be caught up too

you know my heart muscle 
its fibres and the gaps between

in this hall of mirrors I am tantalized by mischief 
the crook of your finger beckons 

so many ways to try!

and where is caution?
nowhere 
nowhere in sight

it is the adventure of going my love
the adventure and

maybe I am
stuck in the mud

maybe not

Poem by Jo Mariner