Writing (for Christopher)

Every single time

That I begin

To write its

As though I’m

Stepping into Heaven

I step into

A different beautiful

Place where everything

Simply becomes words

DampCharlotte

There’s a dampness

This morning like

A freshly showered

Bathroom that hangs

Like freshly laundered

Shirts and misty

Spider webs cling

To tall trees

The air smells

Like wet cement

And dirt little

Glass ornaments teeter

On leaves and

Leap onto clothing

Saturating it duck

Calls echo in

The distance as

Charlotte awakens a

Freshly bathed child

StormyDawn

Like a new

Day storm whose

Lightening pops flashing

My dark room

I venture outside

Listening to taps

On my tin

Roof and there

East beyond the

Tree line a

Line of yellow

Breaks free of

Heavy clouds and

Through the pelting

Rain I feel dawns

Sun bathe me

In warmth you

Were that sun

Which broke free

From my storm

Balloon

And today I

Feel like a

Balloon freed from

The grasp of

A child floating

Free high above

Things winds pushing

Me lifting me

The sun warm

On my round

Body up I

Climb up higher

Higher higher still

Carried over sea

Now descending low

Back to where

I belong as

A new found

Surprise for the

The grasping hand

Of another child

FoundLove

You never find

What you seek

In the place

That you look

Lost things show

Up in unlikely

Places and often

Aren’t what you’re

Looking for but

Instead need so

Goes love try

Not to look

For a type

But instead be

Happy for it

That you’ve found