Heartdrop

Heartdrop is a chapbook of poems offered to the Beloved. Between Between her eyes and the palpitating moon is my firmament of desire I watch poems hanging on pink branches, like wind chimes resounding her beauty to the naked earth - half truth, half fantasy Yet everything meets in her gaze: flowers open their petals to the sun and the oceans evaporate back into the sky A strange type of alchemy where everything finds anything, everything except my throbbing heart Looking out at the horizon in the sweltering heat of the desert where I stand I hear the chimes like a soprano of stars, and the wind further affirming her reality, and further evaporating myself into fantasy — that I leap to faith, biting the edge of the moon Until her waters extinguish my fire. I visited my friend who is a scientist I visited my friend who is a scientist He was so busy in the laboratory: 'What are you doing?' I asked "I am picking up the remaining pieces from my last experiment" he answered I watched, curious and steady 'They are like shards of glass, but soft and bleeding' I said "Yes, it is my heart" he replied 'And what did you discover?' "That nothing in the world is heavier than a broken heart..." I did not know what to say so I just watched him gather the pieces of his heart in his hands "But," he explained, "you should not allow the mistakes of others to take away your crown and kindness otherwise, you will become just like them So continue to write your own fairytale because it is as real as the sun, moon and stars "It is just that, sometimes, your heart needs to be broken to let love in."