The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller

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Your Bones

You’ve got to be able to say it
or your bones will say it for you.

The unspoken
but not quite forgotten millennia
speak through your very being.
The untold stories of the Universe
are writ large on your forehead
and escape in whispers
while you’re asleep.

Don’t forget your spine
is part of something much larger;
your hair like a blushing flower
alive in all seasons.
The birds are your wings
and the fish your memory
of living under water
when there was nothing but ocean.

No secret,
no woe or joy
of God or animal
can be concealed
from the scrupulous spirit
who is writing your bones.