Ahstrild

          Resinous             cloudy
                              brown              eyes in cream     blowing
                                                                        white
                                                                          and blue
                                                               the ice
            of winds through knitted
                           wool      baking bread
small touch
pale eggs
                   a linen
                                             a bear   cushioned embrace

   lying low and rolling
       forest             lakes

         the small   bodies
               in wood    and stone

                felt           and brocade
 
                    yellow braid

      We
                                    climb

                                        on wind                   feather

                                          threading
                                                      sea gull

     butterfly
                      wings

                                                a multitude
                                                                of legs

                                           and fingers

                                                                  in the air

                                                               dry
                                                         far

                                                               cool

Tsovinar

                         Thin skin
                                     burn    dropping
             temper into drought
                                         thick brows
                                                       dark wool the muffle of wavy
                                             hair how blood rises and falls an
                                           inconsistent
                                         convection of heat and rain pelting
                                                          heavily

                                                                  we

                                                          caress smoke
                              lightning

                                                                   a sky erases

                                                             a curtain
                                                       twists

                                             long after

                                          crusting

                     shade

Rakhehla

.
From the wilderness
         by stages       rainless     stony
                        striking        rocks for water

                       sanctuary
                                  to be in pain
                                                    because of          the expanse of

                                                                             thunder is filled

barren         then flowering

          deep
                        wet

                       touching the soft desert pouch
                              of contained liquid

standing by the circle of stones
         asking for drink

                          mouth damp


                 well      and stone
                    lip       and dipper
                                                      We are
      parting dry

           into the dusty

                                             sparse
                        liminal
                                 steps
                                                toward a remote
                                                                                 slaking
 
 

Egairia

A dark blue                                                                             
wearing green skin                                              
that is green                                 
ivory               
threading through sand                    asleep          
entering           from murk     the browns of ground
unperceived                                                       
through the                                                                                   
deformations                                                     
subterranean                   
wearing water        draped with     skin                           
stippled                         under                   
fish                                                                                 
spotted enveloped                                         
waving              sand changing eyes   scattered         
        garments      discarding   sliding over     ivory
seasonal adolescence                                                               
breast
green                               
                                      surrounded
surrounded                                                     

visiting      night           Numa                                     

down                                                     

pool                                 


filtered         
shouting into streams          
 
               we are   here
we are       

rushing away                               

Djuturna

.
Slowly                                                            
                      Into    the    surface
the fold of    thought                         
moves                              
blankly                                                      
under                        her                        exhalation
of willow                                                         
mud                                                                                         
sedimentary                                                                        
swimming                                                        
the light                                                
                                  breaks
                                                 into sheets
                       of wind wishes
calmly            
deriving                                                              
cloudy                                                                
                                    blinking
a bird                                                   
washing                                                            
                             the thin
larvae                                                              
the inner beds                         
bottomless                                                                   

drowning in her                                                                    
                                                                   wavering by
                                                         murmuring
we are           
                     rippled

dim                                                                 
carried
                                                                  floating
                                        partly
                submerged

drifting over                                                                       

.

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