Alice, we are breathing, July 2016

July 2016, breathing


with each breath in
i breathe you
and you me.
we breathe

we breathe the scent
of Genghis' steppes,
her ashes ,1431,
Jeanne d'Arc,

sand from the deserts,
thousands of years,
we breathe all
who died

and we breath
all alive,
we breathe dust
of long dead stars

we are a link
in a long chain,
we recycle
all beings

and all
recycle us
dead or alive
in this together

aware of
molecules of you
through the noise
of mind and past:

i talk to you-
please
breathe in my ear
and sleep

tonight.
tomorrow
we will walk,
be silent and talk.