Love Is
by May Swenson
Love is
a rain of diamonds
in the mind
the soul's fruit
sliced in two
a dark spring
loosed at the lips of light
under-earth waters
unlocked from their lurking
to sparkle in a crevice
parted by the sun
a temple
not of stone but cloud
beyond the heart's roar
and all violence
outside the anvil-stunned domain
unfrenzied space
between the grains of change
blue permanence
one short step
to the good ground
the bite into bread again