LoversDogs

Oh how the nights

Are long a time

For lovers and dogs

This time dawn time

Is my absolute favorite

When both lovers and

Dogs stir one getting

Coffee and the other

Love sometimes I think

That one would prefer

To be the other

WarmerTogether

It is cold here

Here there and everywhere

It seems a time

Of reflection of gathering

Of friends and things

Of moving inward and

Away from the outside

Winter has a way

Of reminding me that

The warmest place of

All is my heart

Come friends sit near

And let our hearts

Warm each and everyone

ChickenSoupDenver

The storm came through

Like a drunken step-dad

Chilling everyone it spied

Cowering and huddled away

From windows and doors

Waiting for the torrent

To pass staying calm

And now as storms

Often do it’s sunny

The lid of clouds

Removed and what little

Heat that remained escapes

Like the aroma of

My grandmother’s chicken soup

Taken off the boil

IDreamtOfMe

I dreamt last night

Of dying me specifically

It alarmed me to

The point of waking

I myself am not

Yet dying but a

Part of me is

And that I’m certain

Whichever part it is

Is no longer needed

Soon to be abandoned

Like a kerchief after

A cold like a

Tear once upon laughter

And perhaps an overcoat

Once my spring arrives

OnceDuneNowBeach

Oh I wish that

I could but no

That like so many

Other things won’t be

They all were once

Then and back there

But here and now

Things are definitely different

So goes ones life

No more permanent as

The sand which skitters

And blows stopping here

For a while creating

Dunes upon which to

Climb and declare owned

That is until tomorrow

When time’s wind’s flatten

It into a beach