It’s been brief
But saturating like
The cloud bursts
Over Honolulu once
A deluge yet
Quickly sun you’ve
Become less a
Distraction and more
Of an occupation
Like I’ve been
Invaded by loves
Very storm troopers
Month: November 2020
If (to Myles)
If when and
If how and
If who will
You then know
When and how
And who or
Do you do
Nothing and waste
Striking that last
Match remembering warmth
Instead of creating
It accepting the
Chill of hesitation
Naked (to Conor)
Let me say
That I only
Ever speak to
The hearts and
From the heart
When you read
You feel and
When you hear
You see that
I am wonderfully deliciously
Naked before you
Please don’t laugh
Instead just be
Here with me
Right now as
Though you and
I were at
The start of
All of creation
Date
And then the
Date was set
On a very
Particular date and
We ate Arabian
Foods and finished
With dates on
That date and
Then on that
Date we also
Ate each other
Daringly and dating
Refresh (to Bean)
And sometimes just
Maybe you get
A second chance
Not a chance
Per ce not
A do over
Not a mulligan
But maybe a
Refresh taking stock
To what’s important
Things come and
Go and come
And go but
Some things are
Constant and consistent
Like your shivering
Or me lighting
Your cigarettes or
The sun and
Moon or your
Kindness and all
The silly things
That we do
Refreshing aren’t they
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 