AfterYou

The subconscious always 
allows the conscious
to go first
whenever we forgive
someone consciously our
subconscious hides in
the deepest corners
giggling and knowing
it will haunt
us when we
are most vulnerable
in our sleep
in time even
it when like
a bully learns
that its taunts
no longer upset
will move on
torturing someone else

Wrinkles (to sweet pea)

And watching you
ironing your clothes
ironically I’m thinking
about the wrinkles
I will make
when you’re finished
prior to leaving
making people wonder
if you’d slept
in them when
in fact we
both recently had

WisdomSaid…

Wisdom speaks into the 
mystery that I am
It knows exactly what
I will one day
so when Wisdom said
that there’s no one
for me to love
it simply meant that
I must learn to
love myself in aloneness
learning to be happy
absent the happiness that
someone else gives me
Wisdom said that love
isn’t meant to fill
but rather to find
a cup that is
already filled adding more
and making it overflow
love is then abundance
for an empty cup
can never be filled

NotAll

I don’t miss
all my lovers
those I do
kept a piece
of my heart

those I don’t
never had a
piece of it
to begin with
and never will

EarlyDenverSnow

A blizzard in October 
it is unheard of
and I grew up
in the north Wisconsin
to be exact where
we know our snow
but here in Denver
we’re a mile higher
and I do suppose
that much closer to
angels when they molt
causing it to snow
here whereas lower down
others will see rain
thinking that its tears
when we here know
it’s a little piece
of Heaven this snow
brief as it is