Clown (for Muenster)

I sit and

Wind wind winding

Knowing that soon

You will pop

Up surprising me

No matter how

Many times I

Push you down

I am childish

But you are

The clown that

Makes me laugh

Waiting

Like a child

Books in hand

I sit waiting

Tapping and wondering

If I’m forgotten

Like a dog

By the gate

Watching for the

School bus crest

The hill yonder

Hoping it’s soon

Like the driver

Caught running late

In snarly traffic

Watching his watch

Time slipping by

This is me

Rapunzel in tower

Dreaming of that

One thing that

Will rescue me

Not from what

I am but

Will make me

Surely what I

I could be

PickedOver (for Ty)

And once again

Once the excitement

Of the newness

Has worn off

Like a birthday bike

I lean against

The garage wall

Never taken out

For an adventure

Once shiny new

Now I’m old

Tarnished and rusty

Not even my

Bell sings but

Simply tinly taps

If only once

My streamers flew

I’d know what

Freedom is like

Why oh why

Am I passed

Over for something

Shiny and new

Selfless (for Ty)

Sometimes in life

If we’re lucky

We meet someone

That is empty

That is capable

Of absorbing us

Taking away strife

Once filled with

Us they mirror

Allowing us to

See just ourselves

It’s a tremendous

Gift because we

Then fall in

Love with us

Then they us

They are magical

You to me

TwigSky

Here I sit

On skinny branches

Bobbing and weaving

About knowing that

It’s just me

And the air

And this twig

Those I thought

Have flown south

To warmer climes

But me here

Waddling and wondering

And knowing that

It’s just me

And the sky

Down below something

Flat woody full

It’s solid safe

But up here

This is heaven

Do I reach

And fall or

Stay here content

Off I go

To my tomorrow