I was looking through very old journal and found some poems I wrote many years ago. This one is from the summer of 2004, with new edits from today.
Let me be weightless
falling away from myself,
and step across
the weeping arms of willows.
The ocean is bittersweet;
I’ll swim the depths in search of me.
The fullest moon,
smooth as a field of clay,
disguises the sharpest thorns
My skin is cracking
full of red rust.
I am
a drawing of sand
dispersing into the wind.
The petals of forget-me-nots die
to be forgotten.