Tie Your Heart At Night To Mine Love

Tie your heart at night to mine, love,
and both will defeat the darknesslike twin drums beating in the forestagainst the heavy wall of wet leaves.

Night crossing: black coal of dreamthat cuts the thread of earthly orbswith the punctuality of a headlong trainthat pulls cold stone and shadow endlessly.

Love, because of it, tie me to a purer movement,
to the grip on life that beats in your breast,
with the wings of a submerged swan,

So that our dream might replyto the sky's questioning starswith one key, one door closed to shadow.