Filling

I tend to

Build new relationships

On the shoulders

Of old ones

As though my

Love is a

Seven layer cake

With the sweetest

Filling at the

Bottom not because

It’s the best

Just the first

Upon which all

Others are measured

Trains (the last of Bean)

Standing here at

The station watching

So many trains

Go by checking

Checking and checking

My watch again

Waiting then hoping

Then once realizing

That this journey

Is mine alone

I’ll leave you

Here right where

I found you

Because you belong

Here not me

Good bye Bean

WhatsLeft

What is left

After the anger

Disappears probably the

Same things left

Behind by the

Tide a Galaxy

Of sparkling stones

Begging you to

Take notice now

Because tomorrow they

Will all disappear

Beneath something else

BefallEvenUs (to Bean)

Today during these

Short days of

Winter I remember

Those long shadowed

Days of summer

Particularly that one

Late summer evening

When you rested

Your head in

My lap while

I smoked a

Cigar and we

Simply looked at

Each other as

Though we were

Seeing the other

For the first

Time neither of

Us knowing then

That like summer

Winter would soon

Befall even us

ImSorry (to Bean)

We tend to

Make up things

About people once

We discover they’re

Not exactly precisely

What we wanted

I’m sorry that

I did that

To you see

You have always

Been but a

Mouse that I

Always dressed up

Like a Lion