song for an unknown daughter remembered

somewhere deeply baby girl Odessa eyes like wild bird migrations grows inside me without a seed

she sings me firelit chasm songs to smooth the sharp corners of my emptiness to curves she unnerves any urgency with a stopped clock that keeps on ticking

somewhere veiled Odessa girl remembers me with needle and thread

teeth ochre red

whistling gap stories unsung for ages pages of petals of tree skin of flesh recovered from the depths of mechanism pages of prizm refracting the visible day into every way home