Crepuscular

Like a sargassum washed up
Why do they create
Nasty words for people that
Want to be kind to one another
If you talk like that must be
Meant as a joke and I’ll be
Pleased to ignore it

Watch the stars shine up
On the curve of my back
A hump like a hill on the
Crest of the prairie
Where something treasured
Was once buried

Listen listen listen
It’s the best thing we can do
Different life zone uprising
In the horizon pink and blue
Silhouette of our hue

White clouded arches
Less confusion more stars
Disillusionment is a myth
Akin to being locked into
Your clothes when they
Are just as easily unzipped
Or unbuttoned

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Emblematic

Bird on my neck
Emblematic suspect
Nothing to deflect
Warm heat at the
Back of my head
Stars spinning above
Standing in place
Waiting for love
Holding a sign up
Inscribed Over Here
Watch me melt
Into a puddle
Knelt before you
Buzzing to adore you
Timeless echoes
Have left me dry
Steady your arrival
If to come and find me
Is on the precipice your
Spell would brew me full

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Étoiles

Discord in a tasty pear
Compersion to beware
Seething liberty in a
Pallid hope spilled eternally
I’ve climbed a hundred steps
To find the sky
Welcoming me
In a bed of stars
What ecstasy is night
And what of tomorrow!

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Trying

Rapscallion
It’s too bad
She stepped
Between us
Wrong partner
Right effort
Many efforts
Dancing with
Yellow hair
Every color
Every shade of love
Every altitude
Up against the world
And our own
Personal Ursula
Keys to our
Own hearts
Swallowed by
An unexpected
Attractive and
Mysterious gate keeper
Traveled a long way
To get here
Through old friendships
And new experiences
Different titles
Different roles
Every possible
Star in the sky
Has looked down
Upon our eyes
And witnessed
Our possibilities
Thank you for
Fighting and
Thank you for
Trying

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Touching

So many moments palmy
Wrapped up like honey
Sticky and holding tightly
To the echt delicious notion
We will find ourselves
Munificently dangling
From the edge of our
Commingled existence again
Was it just the possibility
That I could find you
Unequivocally on the other
Side of all that smoke
Running faster towards
You before your heart
Gave way to the attack
Of our love like a medical
Condition the leftovers
From our legacy will be
Defined by our passion
And not by the inability
To keep going on
Holding strong to one
Another same as the glue that
Holds the water to the earth
Perhaps the gravity of
Our love was an experiment
In life and death
An experiment in memories
That live on even without
Our continued participation
Frozen in time worn and
Damaged suspension
Components of eternal love
So many moments palmy
Swarming around the comb
Of our honey with our
Backs against the beach
Tears streaming down our faces
Just as the stars reach out
To one another without
Ever really touching

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Archaeoastronomy

I wrote a song for you
It lit up the room
Everyone was embarrassed
For me because
My voice cracked when
I sang your name
I was singing it for you
Something like tears
In your throat or maybe
Tears on the backside
Of my hand just
Thinking about
You listening to what
I’ve been thinking about
You listening to what
I’ve been writing about
You listening to what
My antenna has been
Picking up about you
My heart has been
Wanting to admit it
When I looked over the moon
And saw the last line
I’d been trying to find
Somehow hiding from view
It was written in the stars
A dream you made come true
The homespun tune
A harpsichord
A noted song for you
A few chords pulling
At a heartstrings pace
A compass made of light
Archaeoastronomy chased
A casual drumming of
Directions to your place
It’s carved into the rocks
It’s older than the wind
A calypso and a dance
Just waiting to begin

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Impenetrable

I reach across myself
Down into your pocket
To find a handful of sparkling light
Impossible to pass through
Are the iron gates that protect
Or enter into my love
For you
Impossible to understand
For many
I reach across myself
In five points of direction
For your protection
Impenetrably
Hermetic in my distance
Like the planet Mars
A pocket full of sparks
Impenetrable is
My love for you
Nothin’s gettin’ through

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Okay

I’m okay to sit back now
A pedicel observing the bouquet
Of all the works accomplished
All the arts displayed
Paintings repolished
Why even the arrangement
A spray of delight
No need to chase after my
Dreams in the night
What was once upon twenty
Is no longer the bounty
When conversation on a
Front porch swing
Is more charming
Than a stadium cheering
All my life what I wanted
Name in lights
To be someone
Is resting in solace
Knowing we are this anyway
All along more than enough
Out of all of the needs
I’ve accomplished these things
Now to quietly hammock
And watch them
Grow up to be
Like a garden of seeds
Planted over a lifetime
Finally watering
Comforting blossoming
Casually harvesting
Watch the willow of tomorrow sway
Relaxing in a holiday
Of achievements
No matter how small
The stars and a cup of tea
What a lawn chair can be
With echoes of locusts about
Orchestrating simplicity
Isn’t that the beauty
Of every such manifestation
The fruit of our trees
Standing proud in a lovely okay

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Out Loud

Across the sky watch it burn
Like the horizon, the last breath
Moving on from holding out
Like a shot beyond the past
From the gun your life is holding

Letting go of everything that has
Held you back from understanding
The power that resounds
Deep in the banquet of your heart
Sifting through the darker parts

Breathe it out
Cast the darkness of your past
Into a beautiful oblivion
You are standing on the ground
Of an incredible awakening

A constellation of stars in the shape
Of the sound of your love
Use your tongue now
And speak it
Out loud

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