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Friday, November 30, 2012


On the Night


Come visit me on the night,
your frozen image dressed to the hilt and
gliding effortlessly through the auspices
of my eager imagination

I will tuck words for you
into the corners of my mind
and hear them gently spoken as echoes of the day
set out on heartfelt wanderings through the dark

I will embrace your every nuance
as I have conjured it, both willfully and not,
and then feel you slip past all conscious desires into
a place reserved for only those things closest to the soul

Real or not, I will whisper into the tender, folding,
inner reaches of your ear, I will whisper each syllable
of your name, kiss them. and then roll over,
easing into the gentle, rolling tenderness of sleep.




Monday, August 27, 2012


What Words




Voices never seen
sing to you in whispers
chanting words near silent
thoughts as if to drown them

Nothing felt but trying
reaching through to nowhere
beyond the droning echoes
endless waves against the grain

Tables set too neatly
almost everything you need or want
except a certain something
that doesn’t fit the scene

Listen lightly hearing nothing
of what you know is surely there
forks and spoons and plates and saucers
in conversation with only air

Where do flowers leave their petals
on the days and nights left in-between?
the bed stand holds a vase of sorrow
too young to leave – too late to stay

I wish I knew what words to tell me
to fill the spaces beneath the noise
relief and pain are holding hands here
so much spent – so hard to say.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012


When She Left





She spent her last days
in a foreign hallway
her house, her home, her monument
an empty eggshell
her light a maze of
shifting, muted forms

And yet she was there
she always was
she always will be

When the daylight left
on an early springtime day
it simply slipped off
toward other places
to other times, other ways
of seeing and feeling things

Leaving us behind, without ever
understanding what all meanings
might lie within the picture

A painting never fully painted
for the lack of a perfect
brush, for the want of
all the oils and chalk and
charcoals and sweat and blood
simply given away

A drawing etched in memory
complete only as far as
the heart can reach

Hers was a life of eyesight
felt through the heart,
reaching into places we
were all meant to share
but too few of us –
for some reason    
   
She ‘could never begin
   to understand’ –
ever looked

Every word we ever heard
every thought we ever had
was shaped through the
prism of her eyes
and their love of light
    and life and birds and…

And everything we never quite
  understood, yet knew
we had to search for

She became herself only through us
the way it should be
leaving behind this sweetest
measure of our failure:
our inability to be as good
as she never thought she was

And then the sadness of it
those eyes that cherished sunlight
 cruelly going blind

Until at last she wandered off
through shades of darkness lit only
 by the flickering reflections of a candle
and I awakened, confused, to the warmth
of an Easter morning sun stretched
across the back of a tired neck

Suggesting something missing
from a focus slightly shifted
toward some far and distant place

A little girl who grew
and drew and gave as if
she never owned, a lifetime left
in sketches fading into a stubborn
walk down that last long and
lonely darkened hallway

A light still burning so very brightly
as it always has
as it always will.

Friday, January 20, 2012


Yesterdays




Finite dreams
glistening pilings in the water
waiting for one chance
to remember

Where are you,
my friend, waiting and watching
under a trembling
surface?

Like gathering leaves
by the handful, tossing them to
the wind and waiting for what
might just come back

  This is what was real, now…
glimpses into darkened windows
within and beyond reflections
to where we loved.