“Please come to Boston” in my head, lyric of longing, lives divided, yearning to leave meets the gravitational pull of home,
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Rambling sonnet, why don’t you settle down?
Posted in Longing, Love, Music/Song, Sonnet on March 24, 2024 | Leave a Comment »
Buber on the vine
Posted in Existential, Ladybugs, Love, Uncategorized on June 8, 2023 | 1 Comment »
Life richer the smaller I live it, the less effort to dominate, win, understand. Better to be the size of orange ladybugs consummating, the bottom one still, the top one shimmying, vibrating, wriggling before releasing on that vine, tiny white flowers blooming, unphased I did not know their name. Smaller than the me and you, […]
What belongs to yesterday
Posted in Love, Sunset on February 12, 2023 | 2 Comments »
His radiance once burned razor sharp, directed blue and laser thin as through an ophthalmoscope to my exposed eye, leaving me blurry and oversensitive, a light hangover during which normal sensation overwhelmed my receptors, I could not protect myself or close my pupils.
Love in the time of Calamine
Posted in Love on February 7, 2023 | 2 Comments »
The vows we made failed to account for failure, disingenuous as dryer sheets hung for stinging wasps.
Again I write a poem about sunrise, birdsong and anthropomorphized trees
Posted in Birds, Hummingbirds, Longing, Love on January 14, 2023 | 2 Comments »
I am on the balcony before it begins. Achromatic darkness, the sky tangible, reaching back to my outstretched fingers, pressing on my face. A steady hum of cars, the clack and clangs of the train yard trill, chirrup, cheep and chur.