WhyIsThat

I tend to

Think about the

Inconsequential silly things

Paper bags and

Rubber bands and

Oh yes life

And love nothing

Important really until

You need them

But until you

Do all you

Ever see is

Them every where

Why is that

WhatsLeft

What is left

After the anger

Disappears probably the

Same things left

Behind by the

Tide a Galaxy

Of sparkling stones

Begging you to

Take notice now

Because tomorrow they

Will all disappear

Beneath something else

BefallEvenUs (to Bean)

Today during these

Short days of

Winter I remember

Those long shadowed

Days of summer

Particularly that one

Late summer evening

When you rested

Your head in

My lap while

I smoked a

Cigar and we

Simply looked at

Each other as

Though we were

Seeing the other

For the first

Time neither of

Us knowing then

That like summer

Winter would soon

Befall even us

ImSorry (to Bean)

We tend to

Make up things

About people once

We discover they’re

Not exactly precisely

What we wanted

I’m sorry that

I did that

To you see

You have always

Been but a

Mouse that I

Always dressed up

Like a Lion

DishCalledMe

Sadly you’ve become

That absent spice

Noticed upon tasting

A spoonful of

Something that one

Thing that you

Forgot until it’s

Missing one part

Of many that

Now creates this

Dish called me