Waiting for the Miracle

a selection from my poetry collection Ceremonies of the Spirit

from Ceremonies of the Spirit, love poems sensual and celestial

available @ wendybrownbaez.com

Waiting for the Miracle

I would give you all I have:

I would give you this winter day

that chokes against the spring,

 

the light falling snow, the grey.

We looked out the window and praised

the blessed sky for giving in at last.

 

“Con la fe, hasta la agua cura,” he said

and then we laughed and changed the dicho:

“With faith, even laughter heals!”

 

Last night out in the day-boned yard

and dry-boned street and the

dry-boned sky, we held up our

 

hands imagining snow.

We woke to wind tapping

against the glass on white branches,

 

the miracle we took for granted

not so long ago. I would give

you the sky with its imponderable blue

 

warming to daffodils and green.

I would make a bouquet

from all the songs my blood can sing:

 

yearning and desire and fascination

and flight to present to you

tied with a ribbon of moonlight.

 

I would give you the dust of a New Mexican street

to wipe off on the seat of your jeans

and sunset flames to hunker down by,

 

a stray coyote crossing the road

oblivious of traffic and what shuffles

under his feet is not pebbles and dirt.

 

I would give you time to lay your head

against my heart and think of nothing

but rain and birds calling

 

to announce their hatchling young:

I would shelter you and feed you on

honeysuckles and apricots.

 

I would give all that I have:

the lazy caress of river meandering

between mossy banks, the squeeze of sand

 

between my toes, the rush over ancient rocks.

I would let you swim there in the tadpole lanes,

I would find a way to bring you home.

(c) 2008 Wendy Brown-Baez

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