Birds

Remember those birds

That are caged

See those that

Fly as odd

Just be you

And don’t worry

About the others

Let them be

As they you

ChooseChase (for Eric)

Not knowing what

You want is

Different than getting

What you don’t

One is active

The other passive

Either chase or

Choose choosing is

Horrible and lends

Itself to heartache

Chasing is active

Exhausting and difficult

Showing you what

You and your

Life is worth

Simply to another

Capture or lose

You flattered someone

RetreatAgain

Standing atop the

Hill of battle

Surveying the carnage

And self destruction

I decide to

Stop with what

I have left

Men are formidable

Foes cunning strategic

Strangers in everything

Including love war

And simply life

No war or

Love was ever

Won without retreat

For many have

Fallen except me

I stand alone

MouseDreams (to mouse)

And so he

Said we were

There somewhere in

A dream facing

Each other arms

And legs crossed

Like fallen trees

Whispering and making

The sounds that

Only lovers do

Sometimes fury sometimes

Rain sometimes sun

Sometimes sometimes the

Silence of snow

Morning

Skies are blue

Leaves fallen trees

Stand shivering against

Late December winds

Flat country except

For a small

Rise that touches

Horizon with ashen

Green trees white

Sun strips birch

Bare peeling like

Last summer’s sunburn

This day the

Day after Christmas