InSleep (to Bean)

You have no idea

What I see

When you’re asleep

I see you

Unblemished how I

Want you to

Be this pure

Thing that I

Want to admire

And yet the

Closest that I

Get to you

Is in sleep

WindLove (for David)

I’m told that

I write often

About love for

Me love is

Like the wind

Invisible and moving

It makes leaves

Fall in fall

Snow blow to

Drifts in winter

Cools in summer

And brings rain

In spring and

Like wind if

We had not

Love we all

Would be simply

A desolate shriveled

Dry place lacking

Beauty and life

YourKisses (to boo)

You kiss me

Each time like

It’s the last

Yet like summer

Follows spring tenderness

Turns to heat

Like a warm

Towel after cool

Baths and like

Butter melting on

Warm bread your

Kisses come surprisingly

Like rain showers

In Honolulu sunshine

Bathed yet cooling

Tender and sweet

Like buttery croissants

FreshSnow (for Myles)

And sometimes in

Life you are

Lucky enough to

Meet someone so

Fresh and new

That they tickle

You like a

Fresh overnight snowfall

That you awaken

To on crisp

Chilly early morns

Glistening in sunlight

Sparkling like a

Sea of white

Diamonds and perhaps

A few light

Paw prints reminding

You that indeed

While newly fallen

They still remain

New to you

LoveForever

I don’t love

In order to

Be loved I

Love to love

And once even

If we stop

Loving I will

Always love simply

Because you are

Now in my

Heart and it’s

There that you

Shall forever stay