Tender

Tender

Thursday, January 29, 2015

And Yet

Womb


Standing in Is,
While Was
laps around my ankles and
Could Be swirls over my head
Beckoning
Threatening
Enticing
Warning
Promising
nothing

and yet...



Saturday, January 24, 2015

Gift

My Heavy Heart


Gift

Love's gift holds built-in asks
tendrils snake into carefully tended stores
of energy and time
guarded mine.

Love lives on attention, reciprocation
Her hunger-cries pluck sympathy's strings
Her groping need brings vague
suspicious obligation.

No wonder love can seem a threat.

A beast approached with caution
A fire quickly doused
Complication best avoided
Does every gift incur its weight in debt?

How, then, will I ever give

my heavy heart?

Friday, January 23, 2015

Ether (whole)

(As Finished as I)


Will you meet me in the ether?
Can you find me in our dreams?
will our tethered souls remember what it means to love
sight unseen, what resides within
temporarily divided
except 
when stumbling, sleeping, blind, 
we find a moment, still and perfect to be
whole.