Forms of Love

Isaac Dreams of Rebekah at the Moment of His Sacrifice

                    for the moment 
                                listen
without moving 
hear branches break
nestwood kindling a salvation
dawnshine rising from its scabbard
to cut morning's heart

               listen
                                for the moment

two lovers bedborn wake
like doves murmuring mirrored downfall 
featherdreams sing upstream
and pillow imagination's lute
in a river's blink 

                                listen
this morning
in that moment of my blind wakening 
my fingers hummed to your hipstrings 
tuned themselves to skin's vibration

your birdwaters 
stirred at my lip's dipkiss
my father's servant awash in my longing
wept at the prayerwell of your bloodsong
                                for the moment