Light-Combined

by

Radiance Angelina Petro

 

 

Guide your breath

through sound. Let consonants

(those loving vessels

 

of vowels) and vowels spin

into tones, and tones

into song.

 

There are times to hold

notes that curtail time,

and times to enter

 

the unseen and start singing.

Red-tail hawks ride thermals higher

and higher—circling

 

describes the path

of your voice—light-combined,

and free—glides upon unharmed

 

into space, around stars,

through the arms of the Milky Way

playfully trying to catch it, like

 

a child reaching for a firefly

that rises from the grass

following invisible threads

 

leading into gone—where

the child—light-combined

and free, runs unharmed through

 

the last of the day, and into

the softness of her bed, where

her dreams, like tipped vessels

 

spill into time curtailed

into the unseen where all of her playing

plays, like songs upon the breath of god