Heartographer

Art: Sandra and Colette Moreano

Heartographer

Just as Lewis found his Clark

you have made your mark on me.

I’ve seen you in the light

but the dark of you,

I’ve yet to see.

I want to know

the lay of your land,

to map your outlines,

your coasts,

your castles and your moats.

I want to plumb the depths

of your wilderness,

madly fly from tree to tree,

slumber in your canopy.

You’re an uncharted man

full of canyons and chasms

and wildfire orgasms,

emotions as tall as Everest,

a spine I’d like to climb

to that mind that never rests.

I shall dock in your harbors,

get lost on your lakes,

the north that I am looking for,

is where no compass takes.

Let me feel your summer

thaw my winter blood,

greet your April rains,