Believe It

Make your hands
into a cup around
an invisible
something light and
something round like a
whiffleball its just the
shape we're after here and

now that you have it
just so do what must be done and
rotate
upwards
let the whiffleball go from your mind you
don't need it
from here on out this is
when water starts to pour
through your hands
in just this shape
filling your rounded palms and
streaming through your fingers

your hands
like this and the water
pouring through

this is the shape of love

what's the source and the
vessel of all this water is it
vase or tank or
river without end
you cannot know

but when it pours when it
cascades down your response is
autonomic
your body knows and your
wise hands rise and you
make the shape
to catch it
and the water comes running through

this is why
you so love
my cheek to your cheek with
my breath in your ear and
the soft press of my palms gently and slowly and
the dreaming trace of my fingers
to your face
that I love

I am streaming and
you reach and
make the shape and

I am pouring through.