Take this Voice Newly Drowned

 Take this voice newly drowned—
By silken echoes wound,
No one can hear
In resurrected air.
He was a choir in these trees—
His twilight on the rise
O’er storms of jeweled seas
Where the siren cries.

Dear bones shall lie beneath
The quiet, solitary wreath
Of a diamond’s shadow.
Dear bones in their stone bed
Shall find new paths to tread
In the diamond’s shadow…

In the numbness without sound
Reaching from the ground
I found the cracked wing
Of the glass canary breaking.

Caressed she cannot soar
And grasps the sun no more—
The rays sing but are ensnared
By the breast’s fracture of lightning.

The rays are crying to be free—
To reach the sanctuary
Of lovers by the water.
The rays weep in their clear cell
Where they shall eternal dwell
Far from the water.

Dear bones shall lie beneath
The quiet, solitary wreath
Of the diamond’s shadow.