11142020

what?

how?

shallow.

hollow.

shall i deepen the questions with body?

shall i soften them with emotion?

why should i?

i am tempted, not compelled.

this.

is truth.

this.

is intimate realization.

this.

is hopeful.

this.

is healing.

this.

is beyond.

10262020

come, now

sit with me for a spell

together, let us watch

the storm gather

let us wait 

for the clouds to arrive

crystalline and cold

with melancholy

let us become grounded

in this wet earth

bathing in the deluge

of fat raindrops

vanquishing old obsessions

and

illuminating new shelters

who else can ever

know this moment

as we know it?

who else will swim

in the mercurial ocean

of this .: and other :. memory

always seemingly

within our grasp

never quite

tangible?