Earth Turns

She walks through the forest and
counts all the flowers in the harvest-blue night
She wears a green necklace that she
made from the maples and the needles and the pines
And her eyes gaze
to that fireline of day.

He’s lost in the embers of his
broken black mirror and he swallows his pride.
Stares to the distant white
line of the ocean and the hourglass sky
And his mind lies
and his memory never fades.

They run to the beachhead, they dive through the water,
They swim through the tide.
Their arms move together, their feet are forever
in the surfacing climb.
And the earth turns,
And the moon pulls them away.

She rides through the lightning
and the role of the thunder and the limitless rain.
Puts on her blue raincoat, slides open the freight door
and jumps from the train.
And the train rolls
down the river to the sea.

Like Mars the Pretender,
red war he remembers the apocalypse pose.
But his days are not over though the season’s getting colder,
he can’t keep his heart closed.
So he throws down
all his lead, and letting go.

They run to the beachhead, they dive through the water,
They swim through the tide.
Their arms move together, their feet are forever
in the surfacing climb.
And the earth turns,
And the moon pulls them away.