Everywhere Is Falling Everywhere

Everywhere is falling
Everywhere
The center will not hold

It’s all raining down
Burning embers
Freezing rain
Gentle snowy mist.

Stand here I must
Stand here I will
To be battered, molded
Melted

Running like a
River … a stream
A trickle …a trickle of what..
Of sweat..
Of gold..
Of drek..

How long …
How many times …
What does it take
For me to be formed
For me to inform my breath

– jml (8/1998)