White Shadows

White Shadows

The long white shadows of the snow
crunch under my feet like crushed diamonds
as the winter moonlight lets their sparkle
climb up like lattices to the stars

I am words walking on the long sheet
of white paper snow,
letting the thoughts slowly rise up through
the skeletal layers,
the palimpsest of old memories is
an afterglow...

I have walked through this blizzard
so many times before,
blinded without a destination,
a hooded figure of thoughts,
swirling a cape around the days and nights,
pivoting black and white,
coal and diamonds,
falling through shards of memories emanating
from the great spiral in the sky,
swirling snowflakes around
inside the heart of the lost pearl,
leading me out into the parapet of dreams,
leading me out into the great reef of darkness
once more…

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