Poems by Rachel Dacus

Written by Rachel Dacus
Sunday, 29 March 2009 18:01
Rachel Dacus Quetzalcoatl As you leave the bed your rising fluffs up a feather. The sulky curl sways overhead as you whisk a razor down your cheek. I retreat into dream and wake to find a feather in your place, floating as the curtain flaps at the open window. Towns away, you hover over your drafting board, the parallel bar singing up and down. From your pencil extrudes a weightless architecture. It wavers into the air and joins our parallel rooms, following us around all day, lifting us slightly off the ground. We walk into and out of each other's space as around the world tendrils come loose and dangle in front of eyes. They blur the world of faces, superimposing them into dimensions, each left slightly ajar. Time and space grow feathered and Earth's curve fringes into a wing. The dense plumage overlaps, exudes a desert wind scent as a billion feathers loft and we begin to soar. Earth Whale -- For Jim The soil surges with elusive tides. By my apartment an oak dives head first into a hidden sea while bird chatter rattles the sky. The oak sings to me when it pleases. From its black flanks and branches come disturbing lullabies and simple songs of white breezes. The oak's dismantling sighs Roar below the city surface from deep in evolutionary gloom the depths where fire flowers and magma pearls bloom. Oak notes quake the planet as continents cross its face. The poles shift in a vast rhythm of history being erased. The oak hears beyond time and dives for song, headlong. On its tossing tail alight generations of lives in flight. Rachel Dacus www.dacushome.com Rachel Dacus’s three poetry books are Another Circle of Delight, Femme au chapeau and Earth Lessons. Her work has been included in the anthologies Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English and Italy: A Love Story. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area and serves as a contributing editor for Umbrella (www.umbrellajournal.com) and is on the staff of The Alsop Review. On the Web, she can be found at www.dacushome.com.
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