Celebrate

Come celebrate with my family,

and I'll celebrate with yours.

We'll tell of how we crawled

to light

from rabid shores;

seething seas of teeth,

to deserts and oases.

Come dance the eternal dance,

come laugh with your aunts.

Love is easy here -

love is everywhere.

We are one and the same:

we play the fighting game,

we love hard through the pain.

We cling like creepers

to the house,

the house of humanity -

how we defy gravity,

and then land with a bump.

We're knocked about

by love.

Come celebrate with my family -

you're a sister I never met,

a brother I never knew,

caught in a different net,

a lover love chewed;

a blanket or a cover,

the desperate warmth of the moon.

Peel your lips,

lift your hands,

give palmer's kiss,

sophist's bliss,

and we'll celebrate.