A red squirrel
visits me daily
I feed him
chestnuts wishing to
keep him around
it’s a squirrel
after all only
one of many
but it’s the
one and the
only one that
comes here comes
closest comes routinely
and this squirrel
has now become
my children and
my grandchildren that
I never had
the great fortune
of watching play
Category: Gay
MiseryClouds
The clouds today
are like tufting
laid out lengthwise
on a table
one after another
like the corpses
of fallen warriors
on and on
as far as
the eye sees
this morning’s clouds
herald a misery
not only seen
but silently felt
for anyone knowing
them this way
Pension
Most of my friends
now live far away
except for the one
for whom I moved
closer to be near
he him that one
has known me since
college and I like
a pension is his
to keep to spend
and to enjoy throughout
the rest of his
and my life he
and I being both
besties and our retirement
Love#347
Love is
as love
does and
never as
love wants
SoItGoes
What does time do
you asked drowsily warm
next to me watching
it snow time goes
and after a while
you asked sliding slowly
into your own slumber
where does time go
moving closer I replied
that I don’t know
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 