Life After Death

Mind's crevice opened

and time poured in,

music gushing through,

memory electric,

senses aflame --

tongues of fire

sizzling,

leaping,

rising,

spreading,

warming the extremes

of numbed forgetting --

hunger ravenous

for the heartbeat of drums,

pulsing, pulsing

into the ground and up and around --

the firm embrace of

clear, strong sound

wedding my body

to the ground.