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.

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