Category: Curiosity

ThisIsWhatItsLike (for Brandon)

~ Harlan Didrickson

We laid a

Foundation of friendship

Brick by silly

Tripping brick opening

Up like a

Compact mirroring smiles

We compared each

Other like boys

With cars and

Began to know

These things filled

Me with something

Long forgotten Joy

Dance with me

Now in our

Ballroom take my

Hand and lead

Let me follow

Until I do

Take the wheel

Steering us away

From craggy cliffs

Be with me

Now like bumblebee

To flower and

Let us be

Together as the

Universe has intended

Creating something fresh

Never witnessed before

In this lifetime

SeasonsWe (to Brandon)

~ Harlan Didrickson

And so it

Began like setting

Tinder to start

Then fanning catching

Logs to blaze

These conversations dancing

Like a ballroom

Competition spinning and

Ducking and moving

Moved from topic

To topic as

Easily as ice-cream

Melts on a

Warm August day

Leaving us to

Leap like leaves

That jump into

October winds and

Land one atop

One another we

Talked creating a

Harmony like the

Cicadas in summer

These were the

Seasons between us

CatCalls

~ Harlan Didrickson

When I think

Of you I

Think of myself

You mirror me

Though different it’s

Like prairie flowers

Recognizing each other

Have you never

Heard the whistles

On fields of

Flowers on warm

July afternoons it’s

Not the wind

But peonies lavender

And daisies catcalling

To each other

NewMorning

~ Harlan Didrickson

The night sky

Glows an iridescent

Blue like trout

Swimming in Colorado

Shimmering with the

Evening stars making

The horizon dance

Like the window

At Tiffany an

Orchestra of crickets

Chirp in harmony

As this new

Day slowly quietly

Twinkles to life

NewSeason (for Brandon)

~ Harlan Didrickson

I watch seasons

Turn I have

Seen the blossoms

Of spring slowly

Pop into summer

And the late

Fall winds carry

Leaves to winters

Carpet I have

Caught snowflakes

On my tongue

And built snowmen

With their siblings

I’ve witnessed springs

Warmth melt the

Dead of winter

Into slippery slush

And rarely been

Surprised until I

Stumbled across you

A new season