Bloodlight

Tenderly overflowed

banks flood-rent

by love-rivers,

tear-riven.

Silt trickled, swollen-shoaled,

stone splitting.


Earth-soaking, overflowed,

undulating under temple stone,

crack-writhen.


Red-dying dye bled

down rock-faces,

the vein-stained glass

of window-ages

scintillating under lowest heights

of Heaven.

~N.A.D., 8 January 2017