Along

The piano
to you
like typewriter
to me
makes the
only kind
of music
that our
souls know
so come
let us
sing along

ThisThat

I’d never 
known before
that this
not that
would bring
to me
the same
thing as
but without
the rest
and isn’t
that marvelous

Things (for Bean)

Some things say
boulders get in
the way and
other things hide
and jump out
but you oh
you get in
the way of
your own heart
and up and
down the fence
line I run
trying to find
a way in

Tends

Time tends
but not
to things
like flocks
but to
promising pebbles
bringing baubles
to life
by over
and over
again tumbling
one against
the other
making shine

Left

Another other 
like when
what isn’t
and maybe
never was
or ever
will be
the back
of the
bus that
last seat
that’s left
wedged between