Author: poetryfest

“Look! I picked flowers
for you.” I thank you; resume
tending the garden

interested in
her hunger loving coldly
I am an orca

blue gown opens in back
he slurps juice from a plastic cup
belches

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a gurney rolls by
just a poof of kinky hair
among rumbled linens
at dinner
fixing her hearing aid
her head tilts toward the door

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on the boat
a girl looks into the wind
her ponytail a flag

SOME HAIKU’S – a little journey.

1. Love never latent
Never dormant it swims in
Me mother, does it?

2. You’re here again, we
Must endure what remains un
Seen and unspoken

3. It hangs from my neck
The purity he contains
Slowly drowning – pure

4. Nor did I mind, god
What was in your pocket god
God nor did I cry

Together at last,
New days bring joyful laughter,
Old days remembered.

Awaken my soul
Surrounded by your beauty
Wandering— not lost.

Above cloudy skies
Darkness unfolds her story;
“I am back to rule.”

It takes two to dance,
Two to go against the world,
Three for forever.

That picture that I drew
of you, my serenity,
your peace is my home.

Gold tinged air
this Friday afternoon
My house on a small town
midwest street a nest
I curl into, half asleep on the sofa
until phone’s insistent ring

and your rushed voice,
I’m not far away, just a short drive,
can you, can we?
And in fifteen minutes you’re at the door
waking me to your body, mine

I know your car is tucked
off on a side street, know our
time is small
inside my hushed home
where you shouldn’t be
My brain knows but

no drink or food on the voyage
just two bodies flying
rearranging the solid air

And you say
birdsong? hear it?
and give me more

A child’s call outside, someone’s mower
our music
We sway together at leaving time
and I wonder, trembling, sillied,
if you’ll be safe driving home