SaltPepper (to boo)

And then just

When the world

Calls me handsome

You stepped in

Front being beautiful

And oh then

Us two become

What handsome and

Beautiful salt and

Pepper older and

Younger men together

Is that how

This is supposed

To work love

WedMorn

Day is serving

A Neapolitan sky

Above the treeline

Burns strawberry peach

Just above that

Layered yellow vanilla

And beyond that

Dense dark blueberry

Even the moon

Can be seen

Like a small

White bitten cookie

Bungalows jostled close

To each other

Like feeding lambs

As door sounds

Follow the goodbyes

Life start here

Again this morning

WheatFields

Standing amidst fields

Of wheat I

Hear the delicate

Sound of wind

Pushing the kernels

Together like my

Mother’s brush on

Linoleum floors in

Other people’s homes

Standing here free

From those days

So long ago

This sound sings

Now to me

Degrees of simple

Silence a place

Of quiet forgiveness

For her many

Years of sadness

GoodDay

The sky glows

A dull yellow

Like a far

Off lamp in

A distant home

At the end

Of a wooded

Lane welcoming me

Darkened trees hang

Like spooky goblins

As the cars

Tires kick up

Dusty ghosts that

Disappear among junipers

Dawns single bonfire

Slowly emerges golden

Like a pocket

Watch drawn from

The woolen clouds

And distant bungalow

Windows wink with

Brief lamp light

As neighbors move

About in them

This is morning

TakeLeave

Take but me

Take my hands

Take my eyes

Take my nose

Take my cheek

Take my lips

And above all

Take my breath

Leave me nothing

More than you