Waiter (to Jay)

And so I

Showed you things

Let you feel

Some touch some

I explained things

Answered your questions

And you grew

You began thinking

Anticipating and handling

You began wanting

Instead of needing

You learned choice

Instead of accept

It’s not me

It’s only ever

Been about you

I’m the waiter

Serving you your

World one course

At a time

OneMid-MarchWeekend (for Jay)

And it happened

Now it’s over

Existing in memory

Interesting it is

That while memory

Exists in feelings

It does not

Exist in activities

I do remember

That we did

This and that

But the sensations

That I felt

Have completely disappeared

So rather than

Remembering all those

I will remember

You and I

During that one

Mid March weekend

In Hampton Virginia

AtLongLastHello

After two years

Of daily friendship

After hours of

Secrets wisdom jokes

Teasing and arguing

I’m about to

Meet him something

That should have

Occurred much earlier

But now the

Minutes seem longer

Than the years

Doesn’t a face

Deserve to see

A face doesn’t

A chest deserve

A chest and

A back deserve

The tight embrace

Of a hello

Seeing and hearing

Wanes in comparison

To its feeling

Which comes soon

Arrival

Sitting here alone

Window seat watching

Clouds float by

Distracted by voices

Behind in front

Catching the occasional

Peel of laughter

Reminding me of

Yours as clouds

Float on by

But this time

You’re in front

Of me out

There beyond clouds

Waiting for me

And the laughter

That I hear

Now high above

Clouds that float

Float on by

Will soon soon

My love be

Replaced by your

Very own glee

As you run

Abandonedly towards me

Beneath the clouds

ButWhatIf

Don’t we all

At our desks

In a meeting

Or at dinner

Drift silently away

Wondering and wishing

For things or

Someone or with

Things with someone

Don’t we all

Ponder what if

What if when

When will wishes

What if wishes

Until of course

A cough a

Bell a call

Plucks us out

From our dream

Back to whatever

Drum we march

But what if

What if what

And where and

When and how

And with whom