Mute Marriages

Mute marriages:

the ten-ton block of ice

obstructing the throat, the heart,

the red filter of the liver,

the clogged life.



It is a glacier

in which frozen children swim

ground round with boulders,

pebbles, bits of stone

from other ice ages.



Here a lapis glitters,

here a shard of bottle glass-

valuables & junk:

the history of a house

told in its garbage cans,

the history of a life

in its nightmares.



Speak the dream.

Follow the red thread

of the images.

Defrost the glacier

with the live heat

of your breath,

propelled by the heart's

explosion.