Sunday, May 16, 2010

Well?

Well the sun came out today
and a young couple in love got married.
A family sat in the park
and blew bubbles across the sweet grass.

What I'm trying to say is
Sometimes happiness can seem so so sad.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

and we may

When I think how little
I've seen the sun rise
I feel ashamed.

and we may remember

A gift is given every morning
when colors remember the
possibilities of color.

and we may remember

There is something ghostly
in watching a blue dawn melt
into spring flush into tomorrow.

and we may remember
why morning doves mourn

Wouldn't it ease your day
To start one day
watching the sun rise
Today?

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

A Night Out

What thoughts does she have
as she's carried off by
her clan, her head
drooping and and tears falling
silently onto the shattered pavement?

What thoughts does she have
as her hair falls out of fashion
And clots chaotically like a broken halo
Around her fallen forehead?

Does she fear the wolves
that gather on the hillside?
That gather round her bedroom door?

Slobbering, pawing the light beneath the door,
The wolves that wait for the moon to give up
And die in shame at the way the world is.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Whoever

I tell you what:
You take the words
you wanted to give to me
And give them to him. Or her.
Or whoever.

And I'll take my words
and put them right here
For me. Or you. Or
Him or her.
Whoever.

Funny how you turn

At night, sometimes,
I feel the world spinning.
A soft whir, a
slurred vertigo.

Funny how you turn
towards me softly
And whisper,
"The world is spinning!"