Ways of holding

So I have always held you in my heart..

I hold you the way a desert walker draws constellations

From Ursa major to Orion

Finding the Polaris

In astronomy of deserts.

placing pebbles 

on a serape

a not so straight line 

in a pattern

saying 'these are the heavens'

to love's preferred residencies.

I hold you the way a boatman calculates movement

of  the red needle of a compass

for curve point and turning ways

to find its super highway

to  the lesser known residences.

I hold you  the way the jambu staunch

drops   shyly down

when the first light  canoodles

removing the  dew drop tears.

I hold you the way  the summer birds dive

through every summer

so careless and playful

in their infancy

I hold you  through the text of a news paper article

I hold you  through   lines of poetry

I hold you through picture and gaze

I hold you through a laptop screen

I hold you in memory ,

in countenance and word.