Found you in a dream
You’re still no good at goodbyes
Dawn – Alone again.
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Beggar’s empty cup
Walking through stop light traffic
Thin and ragged gloves.
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Miss our little talks
When you could spare a moment
My heart leapt for joy.
The fresh fallen snow
Ice laden tree limbs glitter
and groan at the weight
*****
Wind howls – sirens scream
Shovels scraping on sidewalks
Sounds at the window
*****
The moon is hiding
Behind a shawl of storm clouds
Who could blame her though?
No poem so pretty
As a yellow maple leaf
Fluttering to earth.
*****
Will you come to tea?
The kettle overboils
Hear the shrieking steam.
*****
Chattering of birds
Dispels these dark thoughts for now
Hazard a smile.
No cries of sea birds
Steel, concrete, and car exhaust
New Jersey marshlands.
*****
Food loses savor
And my ribs begin to show
This anxiety.
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Mist shrouded tree trunks
Wet leaves glisten – fungi sprout
Early autumn damp.
Three ospreys fishing
The heron on the sandbar
Is content to rest.
This love’s so vivid
I must have been colorblind
My eyes overwhelmed.
I once saw two trees
Birch and oak, their roots entwined
They grew in embrace.
The low hanging moon
Just above the crashing tide
Admiring her work
God speaks in bird song
That is, if he speaks at all
I answer in verse.
My soul like snake skin
I leave my old self behind
Something new entire.
My friend died alone.
Some dark road at Christmas time
Only now I mourn.
No sleep anymore
But the most beautiful dreams
When the sun runs off.
When will you return?
Across the lonesome ocean
Unanswered letters.
