1. WHAT’S A GIRL, TO A GODDESS ? my heart is a harp & she plays with its strings. she cradles me like moonlight, sings me like a lullaby. i kiss her, and my mind is delirious with stars. my lips come away rosen, blooming open.
2. WHAT’S THE WORLD, TO A GODDESS ? her eyes hold. the capacity of a clear morning sky. the wind whispers her name, springtime raindrops light as her heartbeat. rivers of gold flow in her veins; rush beneath my fingertips.
3. WHAT’S A GHOST, TO A GODDESS ? she takes to the horizon like a thunderbird. i stand beneath a gathering of storm-stirred clouds, trembling like the nobody i am, waiting for her return. the face of heaven does not answer me. - N.S.