when all my books are out of print
when the last one to leave the party is sadness
when the only thing that revives
the dried colors on my palette are your tears
i will decend from my mountain retreat
i will join the coyote in her song
the borealis in her dance
i will join the last line
of every poem written
and drift afloat into the arms
of the ocean that receives every river
as the mother to its waves