The Poetry of Zayra Yves

Deep poetry becomes sung once again.

We invite you to savor this poem, reading it silently to yourself, reading it out loud, and also listening to the poetess’ recitation, all this as a more integral way of entering into and opening the poem’s substantial magic.

After allowing the poem to permeate your soul, perhaps you will be then called by the muses themselves to offer your response and feedback below.

*See Music, Transmission, Integral by Clay Shotwell and Michael Schwartz (section on Ancient Greek).

Drowned Cathedral

from Sleep in the Sea Tonight With Me by Zayra Yves
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At last we are free
from the rock
we had chained our love to.

We swim empty
between there and somewhere

under the transparent sky
no longer bound
by the laments of dying.

We are flesh that is torn
beyond the language of lyrics

past the art of mystery
and into the caves of the heart
as light is turned inside out.

We are the miracle that exists
in ten thousand grains of sand

in the seaweed of saints
and lovers submerged
covered in barnacles.

In a drowned cathedral
we have found each other again
curled in the shell of life.