8/09/2024

A Heartbeat Too Slow

I thought it was clear
between us
You would call

First
When all the fears
and doubts
hung around
swarming like wasps in the dark

We were a heartbeat apart
from the start

A duet of free belly laughs
unstoppable
through it all

How can this lifetime river's
steady flow
cease

One heartbeat
too slow

Richmond, MA 2014
Richmond, MA 2014
To dearest Jill, with all my love forever



7/30/2024

Cartography

Cartography in degrees
Is it a discipline, a studied art?

Web maps so ever present
Click to open
live views, immediate and updated

Terrains unexplored,
yet read

Mountains with valleys, roads versus uncharted territory

Informs safely to build,
or where sites remain
untenable

  

7/20/2024

Want Ads

Selling out inspiration
While decluttering bitter judgments
Far away

Seeing purple bubbles
amber shades in the gray

Blue waves in the window
wrinkled questions

Their remedy
drifting out to sea