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

Spirit (to Christopher)

And like in

The cold your

Breath rising through

Woolen mittens I

Witness your spirit

Escaping your lips

After a kiss

Or the deep

Sighs of understanding

Or that look

On your face

When you at

Last understand the

Joke I played

Your spirit is

Your sun and

I see it daily

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

MorningWithYou

Awake I am

Writing with you

Asleep around me

Your breathing shallow

Keeps time with

These words stirring

You feel my

Distance even in

Sleep rolling next

To me you

Grab my hand

Away from the

Keyboard placing it

Upon your chest

Where I feel

You beat this

Morning giving pause

To these words

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