Highest Valentine

Among those things
that have served
their purpose
the poetry is
in the breaking
apart of the words
the washed space
gathering around  
as altered reality
or sky ambles down the
page that same device
and rhetoric time
uses to seduce us
some want to live
some want to die
but the wisest fly
like Francis flies
directly into the flames
to honor and feed
the highest ones he said.