For you are sharp and clean You’re beaming brightly A flash of color as seen On a bird in flight, for You are soft and wild Like the tunnel of night That promises dawn That holds the howling stars And you fit well into The spaces made by curves bones And also on the places where The blood is closer to the skin, for You are soft and wild Sleeping with the waves Under the sea and the Sun Under the howling stars And maybe if our veins instead Held only water and light Well then the heart Wouldn’t have to work so hard, for You are soft and wild Like a spring unwinding Like clouds evaporating Like a school of fish retreating