OverBoard (for Brandon)

Jumping into turbulent

Seas called to

Action you leapt

Feet first absent

Of your own

Safety and pulled

Me from myself

On the beach

You breathed air

Into my lungs

Reviving me saving

Me from the

World that had

Cast me overboard

MyInspiration (to Brandon)

These words trip

And fall cascading

Down my fingers

Like a Rocky

Mountain stream into

The pool that

You are where

They swim on

Your eyes as

Languidly as teenagers

Skinny dipping in

Moon lit ponds

Swim with me

Here splash about

Giddy with joy

Dunk your head

Under and rise

Refreshed for you

Now are my

Words my inspiration

GoodMorningSweetheart (to Brandon)

I sit knowing

That you’re asleep

Curled like an

Infant under sheets

Dreaming of things

Even possibly me

Awaken to words

That dance like

Ballerinas across stage

Knowing that you’re

Here with me

And my coffee

Good morning sweetheart

PresentYou

And like origami

We started flat

And two dimensional

Then with our

Hands we have

Been fashioned into

Something beautiful like

Diamonds in mountains

We have discovered each

Other amidst boulders

And finally have

What we’ve always

Wanted for Christmas

MorningHere

The morning starts

Ghoulish with clouds

Hanging low like

A million spider

Webs everything is

Hazy like eyeglasses

Steamed from sipping

Hot coffee the

Air is heavy

With moisture like

The inside of

A dry cleaner

As bird song

Is muffled by

This heavy coat