the steady holy

rain falls steady as trust 
til it doesn't                    (trust) 
                                (rain)
and flies resume their maddening 
and the sky resumes cobalting sincerity 
and likewise the trees and we resume eating the sky- 
after that rain, which washed our feet dry
and tumbled down the mountain- 

all my desires leaked earthward (like worms.) 
and we unroll vertebrae from desire's floor 
(despair.) 

and you turn over a stone and find my lips 
saying, "friendship is a curiosity (in faces.)" 

and steady clapping it resumes to rain again... 
(irises. eyebrows) sane as time!