Quake

Sometimes I do think

That when we argue

We aren’t pulling away

But rather pushing closer

Like earths tectonic plates

That when words fly

We’re doing nothing more

Than figuring out how

We can comfortably lay

Closer together not apart

CityJazzMorningCoffee

There is just something

About delicate jazz chilly

City mornings and coffee

It’s like home here

Wherever here may be

And when you come

Out to me swimming

In my sweatshirt and

Nothing else to kiss

Me and sip mine

And sit across me

I know this much

City jazz morning coffee

Is all the heaven

That I’ll ever need

DancingFingers

One of my favorite

Things about loving is

The knowing and understanding

Lovers have a shorthand

They way they touch

Look at each other

The variety of kisses

Always say much more

Than words ever could

So why are poets

Who use words simply

Always the best lovers

Easy because they’re used

To seeing their worlds

And telling of such

With their dancing fingers

Ending

Because we know each

Other and love what

We know but with

No hope there is

No tomorrow and only

A series of today’s

Ex

The end came and

Went with a whimper

Reason outweighed even hope

What we thought wasn’t

And what we had

Didn’t and wouldn’t be

And so like gentlemen

Pushing away from the

Table with cognac cigars

And negotiations we began

To divvy up the

Spoils of loves war

Setting new borders new

Expectations and new policies

And how now we

Will address those remaining

To live in a

Country now called Ex