We sleep close enough that my exhale is his inhale
Eventually we’ll shift
And my breath’ll stir his hair
And his’ll stir my breast
Til face to face again
We stumble into kiss
Then roll back to back
tangle our legs together
And sigh
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Expansion of Heart
We extend lives
With each word written
An expansion of feelings/rhythm
A bridge/hideout/sidebar
We reach the derelict places/
Holes in souls
And reach in
When others run/paper over/turn away
If I Don’t Write
If I don’t write
The engine of my soul shuts down
Ink clogs the art-aries
A ram in the thicket
Pie seas turn salt
Fish gasp to their death
If I don’t write
World’s die
when I do–
Nothing happens at all
In other words
All is well
All is well
The Dance
Intelligence in poetry
a maze of probability
But some parts blocked
By higher promises
A desire to dance
Tugs me along the paths
Propped up in the hallway
My partner masked
Swirl your tailcoats
Grasp my hand
Leave me breathless
Even bloodied as we sway
To the music of our scuffing feet
violins silenced
stars in attendance
As our pens skip
The Dance
Stitch my mouth closed
Else I speak love
Or bid me cursed in caresses lost
For this art
A bounty’s set
To pull the strings of the heart
And win two souls a home in poetry
Starship ’79
light betrays the fine wrinkling dust
The scars of asteroids
The finest starship dancing with space junk
An odd jig circling the hemisphere
A fortune its radio sings
Of human love
Of humanity at all
A pilot who treads the stars
Knows the Earth
Speaks of hell
In such pretty language
Phantom
In every bakery shop/motorcycle stall/concert hall
I breathe you
Miss you in ways I cannot miss you
My phantom/companion/brother
Lines in the sand blown to nothing
In wind’s tongue
In poetry
We speak
This is Me
Me on a happy, healthy day. Grateful to my Heavenly Father for many months of solid energy. Taking the next steps to challenge my limits. Love life. Love recovery. Love where I’m going.
Teacher
He smoothes my hands between his-
“Tension,”
He smiles
It is pity and brotherhood
Coursing through him
The energy that moves into me
I relax
Bristling with an unknown element
Being cared for so delicately
With no undertone
I’m refreshed
Whole
Light
I wonder what it cost him
To heal me
If my illness sagged against his chi
As I smashed him into a hug
If he felt the sisterhood and respect
Coursing out of me
Because the Sea
Mar the shoreline
A thousand year’s glass
Heals your path
Because the sea
I almost flip out
Of the wheelchair
As soon as the front wheels hit the sand
We don’t make it to the shoreline
All around me are mounds
Muffled muddled steps
A mirror of today’s ocean
You squeeze my shoulder
I say let’s go home
Because the sea
Because the sea
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