Author: admin

The rain fell all day
Outside the window
Inside the house

My mind translates their lyric call
into what winged versions of ourselves
might sing

Let’s meet there some day, you and I,
away from the color-filled meadow

Yesterday the waves had rainbows that rode their spray like phantom surf gliders, the pier busy with fishermen catching crab.

Sometimes the guy comes in swinging
and it’s interesting to see how people react

Not all clowns need make-up;
and some faces are covered with confetti
when Saint Augustine throws his sin
into the clapping hands of spectators.

In bright sun, we’d find a flower
and bury deep into blossom

for the umbilici:
a scar on your chest,
a hole in the stem of a feather
that drops from the sky
into the hollow of the halves
of an empty shell in the sand.

It has journeyed farther than I ever will
Its brass body has been touched
by the wealth of women who came before me.

She makes a nest, deposits her clutch of eggs
and waits for their bubbles to burst

You showed me ways of
absorbing literature
that I did not know existed.
You introduced me to poetry,
and led me home.