Watts Towers
I want to live like I'm building
Watts Towers. Each moment a glittering
thing to be picked up, a discarded tile
shard from the dust made beautiful
by finding and pressed with love
in the mortar. Then, at the end
of it all, secretly, deep in
me, will be three reaching
towers in bright sunlight.
I have love in me
like the building of Watts Towers.
Each fragment of tile and bottle I find
I will press to mortar with fingers
trembling from that love. I have
love in me like building
Watts Towers.