SparklingWater (for Fred)

And there you

Were this tall

Glass of sparkling

Water that tickled

Me little bubbles

Popping on my

Nose making me

Laugh this freshness

That cleansed so

Many other meals

Making me forget

My heart full

Of heart ache

Your freshness made

Me believe that

A stranger could

Make me laugh

Again at last

RiverYouAre

I dip my

Hand into the

River you are

Feel your current

Feel your cold

Then lay languidly

On flat rocks

Sunning myself in

Your smile warming

Rings (for Fred)

Oh this is

Easy sometimes someone

Surrounds you they

Compliment you they

Can’t believe their

Own so they

Become something their

Own which is

Nothing with you

But

There’s no you

Without them because

Most of the

World are more

Interested in them

Then in me

Caught

You know that

Life is this

Way and that

I prefer that

It means a

World of difference

Be different those

Being the same

Applaud those being

Different because those

Hang you up in

The drive-thru

ThisBestLove (to Melvin)

It is said

That you stumble

Into love that

It catches you

As you fall

Awkwardly at life

Once tripping your

Outstretched arms held

Me helped me

Steadied me put

Me on my

Feet and walked

With me until

I walked alone

At which point

You then disappeared

Sometimes love appears

Like the hands

Of God when

We’re our worst

Making us better

I miss you

This best love