It came then
Something warm and
Bright something from
The East a
Surprise while hoped
For the sunrise
Of your words
To me crackling
Like eggs frying
Like gleeful children
Waving at parents
Two simply simple
Words good morning
Month: May 2021
Over (to Bean)
Why oh why
When the message
That I await
Comes my heart
Bleeds
Why do I
Pound
These nails into
My hands why
Do I suffer
So
I let you
Go so why
Why oh why
Do you come
Back
Except to remind
Me of what
I’m missing and
What
What what what
You left behind
We’re done aren’t
We done done
Take your nails
And hammers and
Go on home
Spider
And this morning
As I enjoyed
My coffee the
Strangest spider kept
Dancing across thigh
Hand and finger
I swatted plucked
And pinged it
Off me until
I realized that
It was you
Visiting me in
Your sleep reminding
Me with your
Little dance that
You’re still here
SandCastle (to Jay)
Oh we spent
Time building our
Sandcastle with pails
And shovels and
Hands pushing and
Forming and scraping
With gleeful abandon
When one huge
Wave erased everything
Gone now it
Is choose we
Must rebuild it
Or head down
The beach hand
In hand looking
For a safer
Harbor for dreams
Lashing (to Jay)
And then I
Snapped like a
Wet towel growled
And barked like
A junk yard
Dog lunged like
A swamp alligator
And eventually saw
Before me moist
Eyes and tears
Why oh why
Did I do
That to you
And now we
Sit in the
Cold silence like
Late January winters
Frozen in place
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 