Arriving

like

bread

snow

rain

warm

quiet

cleansing

delicate

questions

trailing

tentative

hellos

touches

aromas

bubbles

heat

sated

sitting

watching

wondering

like

cantilevered

houses

or

weary

fence poles

we

leaned

toward

the

same

alighting

curious

brilliant

firefly

kiss

One

first

one

long

ago

one

forever

one

until

one

before

one

since

one

then

one

now

one

asleep

one

laughing

one

gone

one

here

one

forgotten

one

remembered

one

old

one

young

all

these

ones

but

you

you

are

the

one

one

Set

sail

to a

dream

Curitiba

a stage

home

now

taking

parts of

me

trinkets

baubles

freedom

to dance

for

others

applause

your

toothy

grin

graced

private

heart

rooms

today

you

belong

to

others

just

mine

no

longer

Postcards

lay

clothes

before

impressions

of

long

ago

longing

rolling

side to

side

missing

your

weight and

heat

paper

pictures

stamps and

scrawl

cannot

blanket

now

I

have

love

invisible