Quarters

By Catt Kingsgrave

 

Come rise from your mountains, my amber, my ancient eyed,

Green-boned as midnight in flowering tree

Look up from your leaf bound mosaic of elder days,

Stride from your mountains and dance here with me

 

Come rise from the cloudways, my sapphire, my thunder winged,

Breeze sweet and tempest eyed, dawn-wild and free;

Race from your misty blue stormwooded windmazes,

Stoop from the cloudways and dance here with me.

 

Come rise from the sunhalls, my garnet, my glowing one,

Flame-crowned and bright eyed that all eyes may see

Spin from your heart-drumming gilden-lit spiral blaze,

Leap from the sunhalls and dance here with me.

 

Come rise from the ocean, my black pearl, my shining one

Jade blue and evening swept from the sea,

Flow from your labyrinthine, bright branching coral ways

Surge from the ocean and dance here with me.

 

Come rise from the soulways, my diamond, my crystal-eyed

Nowhen and everywhere, fallow with dream,

Wake from your star-singing, life-breathing heavensward,

Flash from the soulways and dance here with me.