*Repeat three times aloud for healing/ #speakitthrice

Green is the color that we travel in,
Moving through openings, never unbound
(After all, violet is only its skin).

Green sings the sound as the water comes in
Silent with openings, always (like sound’s
Wild singing wings that close into the water).

Will we be ready, and will we be found,
There, in the depths, where tongues have been wound?
Green, after all, is the touch of the water,

First published in Cimarron Review