Balloons as a base

1.
A woman
will love you
like a birch tree

2.
The rocks
are just laughing
and joking
all day

3.
When she comes
down the beach
it will quiver
as if a great eagle
had flown over

4.
At the point
there are spiders
and more
small boulders

5.
When she turned to me
all my bones were showing
My wound was a great river
that bled into the sky

6.
She offered me rocks
just rocks
so I rolled my tongue across them
gently

7.
We were all alone
in the sky
while the distant hills
scorched the earth

8.
There were jaspers in her hair
chert and epodite
but I searched on
for her agate eyes

9.
Now dawn
be good to me