Collaboration #4: Robbie Coburn & Michele Seminara

Her   (Robbie Coburn) 

down the skeletal roads, daybreak brings a daylight rain.

where you wake in the silvered tapestry of distance, 

the futile wind in its fragility cold with each visitation.

the sun enters  from a ridge in the morning air 

and desire also, in leaving the fragmented hem of your dress,

your choice of music, so far out now. glad not to pause any longer 

to a presence following the bending light along the candle's wick

the morning wind bowing through your hair darker 

with your beauty aligning these persisting hours.

your voice resting in this space, to wake to a silence, 

the day already so filled with light around you.

Pause   (Michele Seminara)

sun fragments the tapestry of cold morning air.

silver roads bend light through distance. 

I am so far out now only her voice

aligns my fragile mind. her presence 

persisting beyond visitation. 

along the skeletal ridge of hours

daylight bows then breaks    desire 

waking to futility—  

her beauty, when she leaves, 

darker than daybreak.