HOMEWARD
Long journey back home
Golden eyes reflecting sun
Bob Dylan is singing.
LOUD MORNING
Early morning cries
Baby drags me out of bed
She calms in my arms.
FIREFLIES
Fireflies alight
She laughs in the summer air
Glowing jars at night
SHE AND I ON THE BEACH
Sun beats down on us
We walk on the dying waves
Seashells cut our feet
DIRECTION-GIVER
I'm already lost
headlights in high beam tonight
texts me as she drives
NICOLE
Hand on her belly
Pretty eyes, forever sad
Baby due in May.
WOODS
Fire's going out.
Sleepbag zipper locks us in
An owl mourns, somewhere.
AFTERMATH OF THE DREAMFIRE
Long time since breath left
Cleaning slowly calcined skin
Cradle him and weep.
THOUGHTS AS SHE WALKS BEFORE ME
Following you down,
Red lace crawling 'round your neck,
Twigs crack 'neath our feet.
A WINTER MEMORY
Scraped my knee on ice.
Bandaged up, then back outside
Scraped the other knee.
TOM
Crawling in his bed,
Sleepy hands and old cologne
He snores in my ear.
