Slowly, she disrobed,
Laying down
Her last resistance
Tag: Moments
Snapshot: The Far Island
Out my car window
I see the distant bridge lights
And the far island —
A moment passing like stars
Dancing on deep blue water
To share is human:
Mount Pleasant
Tethered to a liquid mooring,
Bodies moving, night brings
Men striding head up beside
Gold hoops and little black dresses.
All the children are back home
With YouTube Blippi and LEGO blocks,
So the good wine flows by the
Succulent harbor, torches come
To life along April avenues and
Blue and white banners flutter in
A wind too strong for tall heels on
Wooden docks.
To share is human:
We ate dinner in silence…
We ate dinner in silence, both worn out,
But spicy Thai food woke us up again –
The dreaded day had come, and been born out,
Just like we thought it would, it had. But then
We drank and laughed and talked of other things.
She ate her massaman, I ate my beef;
There’re unexpected gifts life sometimes brings
When we are past all action but belief —
And as we left the place, I grasped her hand,
Which she squeezed back. No other words were said:
For lives are full of meanings, unexpressed —
Like living through a day
You’d come to dread
(11-7-2015)
To share is human:
Falling rain and heart and sky
Falling rain and heart and sky
Landing softly. You and I
Kissing there amid the spray
Of some long-lost summer’s day
Secret-telling in the dusk,
Perfumed hair, and skin and musk;
Peeling back the edge of shy,
Falling rain and heart and sky
To share is human:
I’m trying to understand —
What does this ocean mean right now?
It’s voice is soft, I barely hear
The words its forming in the waves
I stand, attenuated, like a deer —
But stillness breaks before it forms
My mind, it never finds repose
Whatever, now, this ocean meant
Is lost to space,
For heaven
Only
Knows
To share is human:
Someone Who I’ll Never Know
Abandoned on an aging farm,
I looked at it in silence,
A broken sort of would-be shack
That time had done some violence
And yet, I found it beautiful:
To feel a presence near
Of someone who I’ll never know
Who left his traces
Here
