L i s t e n l i g h t

Elizabeth Kate Switaj

  from “Gifts of the Tarot”

Queen of Wands

    you will rule as I do
    sprouting wand leaves could take
    for butterflies & sunflower
    that never dies to seed
nothing to devour  or plant

but what your hands can
untangle from these rhizomes
    transplant               migrate
attracted to lithe black cat
betrays
          you to your brilliant flight


Old Soul Mates
  for Martyn

this is no sunset romance
no lie of our star sinking
behind solid crags of shadows still

                                                we spun past all that
                                                gold before our words
                                                before our independence
             & all our rejections

we were born too old for our hair to turn gray
this is a midnight

romance we cling
to each other's walking bodies
           we ought to be asleep
continuing to speak & turn
                                          & morning starts here too
        
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