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Of All the Shadescapes

Mark Fleury

Of all the shadescapes
That make up the inside of my skull when clouds
Of thunder give the sky shape,
My favorite lightning begins and ends
In that our personalities complete
Each other’s source.

Liquid electricity lighting
Up the bottoms of the dark gray bulging
Almost made the clouds look solid.
So using tide as guide, I had to give in
A little to ebb’s flow of you in me
Toward the world. Commanded,

Lean, carved numbers: that one is different
Before the symbol’s added to it,
Together becoming two: how the Cross
Heals and straightens its broken back
To earn its wings. Four Sacred Directions,

Each is loaded: west, what spirit/breath
Becomes to equal south; north, first/last name
Of my brother and/or sister to equal east.
Just like who I am for you
And who you are for me add up to
The destinations of all four points. Dusk just means
Inhale my prayer, exhale my life.

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