Kerri Shying R # 136 go on, go on

go on go on

belief in holding

 some acceptance in the hand

is best done

now

before the words are

paginated    set

and fingers crush the

stories into  shapes

guts up    hard

against their spines

before the other phantoms

loom     pressing into

spaces     sought for

making  lists

fears oppress   distress

 the birds     fly south with

dis

belief    it looks you

in the eye

a sky above

blue     sea     here soil

the hand you hold

the sleep  

 carried-on belief   

 no thought but that

 it’s you