Tag Archives: experience

melting melting – April 17

4.17.18 melting, melting, winter melting except that it’s a month too late and the birds who snuck north now cluster around feeders like mother’s teats lest the chill take them down.   sun like august, ground for february, dateline april … Continue reading

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in the morning – March 1

3.1.2017 in the morning after the last morning we will wake each other with a touch;   soft hand to cheek that opened our eyes in the nights that we knew   forever. ——————

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snow blue – December 13

12.13.2016 snow blue in the moonlight sparkling disney card brightness   as if unreal in contrasts of crisp blacks and whites so real   that eyes flare and cheeks flex in the grin of sheer joy   the gift of … Continue reading

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the dog and I – November 16

11.16.2016 the dog and I take different walks together   one staring downward in thought, other times head up noticing a leaf blowing, birch tree across the pond, light in the bottom half of a third window to the left, … Continue reading

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eyeblink – August 25

8.25.2016 the surgical light gazes down while the man out of sight adjusts the tube in your arm   voices sound like they’re in the next room or maybe a dream moment   except it’s your love leaning over saying … Continue reading

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years – January 19

1.19.2016 years feel like moments or eons   depending upon who   you are spending them with. ————

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spandex – January 18

1.18.2015 wrapped up in furs like kleenex   nothing stops winter’s spandex   from clinging to skin with fire. —————–  

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speaking truth – July 11

7.11.2015 she lived with pain for years until a real love came.   now gone there is grief at too quick an end   yet the heights spoke truth. —————-

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gone – October 9

10.9.2014 I turned around and they were gone   as if snatched in the rapture   and only we the depraved were left   feeling hollow. ————————

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simple gifts – November 28

11.28 the steel blue river of ice bends its swan neck amongst fifty foot sentinels, balancing the browns and needle golds below.   while the sweet fall wift of smoke upon the wind echoes passages of time and hearth and … Continue reading

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