Figure Eights

Gliding through the night
wondering
how far the ice will hold

These flashes
vivid, gliding flashes

             Floating

Singularly
though not alone

  

Useful Hum

Shadows cloudy
                 familiar shadows
disturb life's useful hum

The sun with a different sort of face
hardens our soil

Impenetrable
walled to hide blank space

Missing

Time simply disguised
dissolves
photographs unfolded
in a clouded mind

Places
once central
pushed outside

To rewind, reexamine,
still left behind

Useless chapters
unfinished, unmeaning
tell a blank story
of missing dreams