this glass now reflected a tabula rasa for our destinies both written and bled
Two Snows Ago
Two snows ago, before all the woe, we were both awash in a lover’s glow; you were my only, and I was your one, and the sun that set was an innocent sun. Two snows ago, we had room to grow; we had time to waste and a world to know, but we gave that up for the things we’d learned on our daily screens as our own world burned. Two snows ago, seems a hundred years; we threw away love as we courted fears, and I look back now at the lives we lost, and how little we gained and at how much cost
To share is human:
afters (15)
when you read, you are admitting you still have things to learn and that you are at least ostensibly open to doing it
To share is human:
afters (14)
television open air me right here you right there afternoons and after love this is it and it's enough
To share is human:
afters (13)
moving sucks and takes forever; all the paperwork is rough. finding how few friends show up when you have fourteen tons of stuff
To share is human:
afters (12)
when our kids were young we looked out there and saw them in their plenitude we called them in at dinner time, awash in loving lenitude and when they went we smiled goodbye, for they'd be back, and (often) call -- these strangers who we raised out there but who we barely knew at all
To share is human:
afters (11)
we rise, for we want to be higher, then follow each wayward desire only to find out what the climbing's about: that's getting too close to the fire
To share is human:
afters (10)
i can smell her despondency in these walls that age where people stop asking, right when you need them
To share is human:
afters (9)
we borrowed all our opulence, and tasted that one meal: which sharpened all our hunger from that point onward
