My lips shall not speak a resolution this year.
Instead they will whisper a prayer
kiss a hand
press it to my cheek.
Bereft and longing
but I cannot resolve a path –
Will not resolve a path.
I pick my way through the orchard
stepping over ancient fallen branches
and rotting fruit corpses.
The sun
sinking into the horizon
blinds me, though there is a tree in the distance
a silhouette
black and invisible
and I am pulled forward
even as it disappears.
I say to Adam,
get out of my way,
you’re blocking my view.
I am mesmerized by that tree.
I hear my beating heart
a serpent hissing
a bird in laughter.
Trust that God does not mock us.
Turn over the hand
kiss the palm
let it happen
without resolution.
from Poems from the Chatterbox