As Far As the Eye Can See

My eyes are clouding now,

though my heart is full of pearls,

ripened over long years.

My bones fail – yet

teeth crunch words

from the spring of

a still dancing heart

though it drifts a little,

towards folds of endless sleep

where sea laps on milky sand,

in the black coiled night

where the moon emits no light.

© Valerie Taylor 

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