our earth still breathes.

                          

Our Earth Still Breathes

Spreading a glow

In her palm

She wraps it around

Her neck

Leaning back

To kiss you, strikingly

The pull of

Of her approval

Tilting you

Into me

As we ate celebration

From a paper plate

Picking appropriate clouds

I bent atop you

Like a deep green

Stem of daydreams

My blossom hair

Sprawling out upon

Your fresh – ness

Water me again

She calls you back home

You pluck a flower

Near your eye

Oh love, our earth can

Not be zipped up into death

Have you learned

Your lesson yet?

Forever grows

Shorter

Each year

                   
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i hope.

i hope.

Down this road

I hope to know you

Like unplanned evenings out

And morning calls before

The birds

Like silken ribbon

Curling over my heart

And dedicated music inside

My palm

I hope to watch

This page of us

Turn slowly

As its colors fly

Freely off the page

Soaking us in

Ridiculous pleasure

And all we’d ask - is to be

Stained. 

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Till fall.

I think when winter comes

I will see you in sleigh rides

I suppose when spring returns

I will hear you in early sounds

I bet when summer leaves

I will feel you near my side

Pressing me to wait

- Till fall 

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over you.

over you.

You are blue eyes beneath a

White hat leading me to the

Beach that is closed for the

Season – another reason

To add too much sugar in my coffee

As I sit on a bench and stare

At an old theater, swearing the

Sign is going to fall

You distract me inside meadows of

Flowers that I can not name

For my head is filled with a

Tangled necklace that needs

To be fixed so that it can

Wear into my neck like

Heart shaped discipline

As I am swooned in the dark

Of his normalcy.  

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i love you.

I love you

I love you like

I’ve known you

Met you someplace else before

Live with me a lifetime more

I love you like

Happy birds – bouncing odd

Morning sun’s – imagined nod

Spring time secrets – lying in a field

Thirteen promises - sealed

First – crush- rush

If only I could touch

Running start upon the sand

Take my hand and

Jump!

Hitting the ocean so blue

And as deep

As my love for you

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rest knowing, i love you still

Rest Knowing, I Love You Still

When a field opens up into
Your bedroom 
And you lie in it like
My heart
I will settle on a branch
To prepare a budding song 
And you can in-half smile 
Dabbing clover
Upon your sorrow 
And wish my wings to 
Try you again
And I shall
Circle you
As softly as you imagined 
You can shiver
You can kill the pain 
Upon my breast
To catch the clef 
That sings us 
No words of debate 
I’ve forgiven you
(My seventh sense)
And a dozen rose

Can wait 

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whispers.

 

whispers. 

sometimes little whispers come to me like light

shining through the trees

it all settles in and i just like to listen

as you say to me

i am the fairest one of all

more than this thing, beauty

you fit the crescents of my heart

just as i longed to be

everything, to you

who whispers like balmy light

through these nested trees.

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remembering.

remembering.

Time fades

As sorrow grays the sky

I release an ache

And you touch my sleeve

Like love lost does

Your gravity angles our

Worlds correct

I collected some of

Your light

That night you

Vanished down

The cold, damp street

My temperate words

Moving in your

Troubled cup

You turned away

Your back burned

Into my chest

I prayed you would

Drink them all

Now I wish – just a sip

My void is in your voice

She sees your game

-You lose

And I am not

So sorry.

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