we are
no were not
We left it there for the river to flow through cleanse our scars
now waiting for the scab
the scar tissue tattoo
needle marks of love
Post 48
Walking in the dark, my candle
lighting an inch
or is it two? in front of
my nose my eyes crossed hurting
Yes, I have a headache
tomorrow again I come back
same candle same spot same few inches
why obsessed
why words
The Married Woman
She keeps turning around.
Why?
My glasses? My cigarette? My paunch? Her husband in on his phone looking for some address.
She has no style. A St. Louis Cardinal T-shirt for the game today against Boston. Kakhi shorts that do nothing for her shapely legs. Cheap CVS sunglasses.
Why she keeps turning as he is busy on his phone trying to figure where to go? Is it Fenway Park? At 9 in the morning? I smile. She turns. Guilt? Shyness? She looks at her husband. She turns around and when I smile again, she returns my smile.
The light turns and her extra-marital adventure in Boston ends.
July 14, 2017
Man that I am is but your shadow
your shadow now in me
the light in me filled and filling
the shape and expanding as you had
wanted me
I miss you dad.
Am I as strong as you?
Am I as brave Am I as good
as pure of heart and purpose
as devoted a father, friend, husband, healer
I thought I had stripped the myth off of you
yet I only found a grand ship of the line in the currents
of life
The sapling I was, the tree I am, will transmogrify to such a ship
you became at 22? Or even a boat?
Your shadow, your myth, your grand presence lives in me.
July 14, 2017
Man that I am is but your shadow
your shadow now in me
the light in me filled and filling
the shape and expanding as you had
wanted me
I miss you dad.
Am I as strong as you?
Am I as brave Am I as good
as pure of heart and purpose
as devoted a father, friend, husband, healer
I thought I had stripped the myth off of you
yet I only found a grand ship of the line in the currents
of life
The sapling I was, the tree I am, will transmogrify to such a ship
you became at 22? Or even a boat?
Your shadow, your myth, your grand presence lives in me.
