time elemental

elemental memoir
I wrote you in dust
spun in heavy winds

time felt heavy
and fell out like rain

she washed out gulches
into new dreams

paths laid out
in iconic trust
sailing with the current

the land is changing
there are no captains here

just maps of all sizes
overflowing landscapes

near the end of the water
a large map opens
to an old world

with no choice I enter
time ceases to exist
because it has doubled

my doppelganger is time
following my shadow
familiar and deadly

we dare not meet each other
because we both may die

so sail on
with few words
in the brightest corners
of endless refractions

feeling the sun
stroke water

scaled
like an iguana molting

with blank reptile eyes

blinking

this moment

inviolate