There I Wander

Grief pulls me down canyon walls

There I wander, there I wander

To search for imprints

Your hands left in dust

There I wander, there I wander

Listen for your voice

Caught in the branches

There I return, there I return

There I return, there I return

There I return

Your spirit fingers push us

To incant witness to your body

Feet pointed east

Where sun stains sky

Crimson and gold

Hands cradling your precious brown belly

Hair pulled into a ponytail

Like a river of obsidian

Rock, your lost flesh

Bare you up

Open-palmed

Sacred