Barbless Sparks Poem by Mark Heathcote

… Barbless, -nothing holds or cuts you
You are free to fly and consume the sky
You are as an uncontainable spirit
Nothing evil fastens your inner eye
You see diamonds beneath a deep blue sea
Safire's glowing
Where there said not to be.

… Barbless, -nothing holds or cuts you
Nothing plagues how high you can fly
You are as a diamond city on the moon
You are as all the sunsets, the sunrises
Courageous in their tremulous breaths
Blooms, nothing but intimacy, light,
Joy consumes your inconsumable soul.

… Barbless, -nothing holds or cuts you
You are as an uncontainable spirit
A butterfly breaking free, its cocoon,
A homecoming-flower atop an iris-rhizome
You settle on the air and float everywhere
Free as can be; we want only to incarcerate thee
Jealous as jailor who-one-day-soon must release thee.

… Barbless, -nothing holds or cuts you
You are totally-free
There are no more guards or boards
No more emptied hearts like gourds to fill
You are beyond their reaches and hollow faithless needs
You are a bayou sunrise an island reaching out beyond the moon
Further, then the land can stretch out a sandbank too.

… Barbless, -nothing holds or cuts you
You are totally free; you are totally free all around us.