Saturday

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.

Monday

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?