And the sky
one day
began to fall

At first
nothing
a stillness
almost frozen
waiting to burst
breath held
The irrevocable moment
just before
the fall

Then
the sky
in cascades of unicorn evils
comes raging down
not all in one
but in pieces
of time
diving
dissolving
into angel
dust days
turning gold-red
layers and layers
of skirts
fabric flaming
falling
almost gently
like streams
of lava

From here within I watch
the falling windows
stripped naked
screaming
I watch
the falling
of foreheads
fountains
crying lurid rain
I watch
the windfall
of lives
one by one
apples
loosing themselves
as they fall

The heart
out there
unknown to itself
unleafed

I watch it
back
and forth
back through times
long before the fall
back through eons
before the ice-color mirroring starlight
before
the first murmur
before the earth
before
the birth
of seeds
of silence
before the soul
and its
surrender

Back through moments
I watch the breath of invisible waters
freeze and
fall

Fall