A Place of Too Many Wishes
(after Anselm Kiefer)
When we speak of ash
and straw and lead,
our voices must be
made of healing.
We must speak
of earth and rubble and
erosion in the same way
we break bread, thread
our sewing needles,
pedal our way forward
into fields of golden air.
A train can become a pencil.
A sunken airship, a missive
in time. Gravity comes to
claim the force of darkness.
A sunflower is the way
silence first breaks through,
leans heavy with new seeds
and the weight of longing
to meet its own forgiveness
deep in the ground.
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