UsThereThen (for Scotty)

And then from

Afar a voice

An old friend

Wishing me tidings

My heart sang

And my soul

Filled like a

Cistern of love

Oh so long

It had been

Since I heard

Your voice bringing

Me back to

Yesterday like reading

Old letters and

Remembering us there

ShyClouds

Crimson clouds scrape

The sky like

Silky feather dusters

Or long thin

Fingers of socialites

Having just used

Their compact uplit

By an early

Dawn they beam

Chagrin in colors

Of red and

Orange making my

Early day glow

Web

Just saw a

Fly get caught

In spiders web

And finally understood

Why the goodbye

You felt curious

And then caught

Cautious and then

Quietly painfully seduced

Struggling still you

Tried in vain

But in my

Web you remained

With nothing to

Do but die

I could have

Freed you but

Instead watched you

Struggle until goodbye

Slipped by and

I knew that

You didn’t belong

Just to me

Leap

A leaf falls

So does heart

Leaping from one

Place to another

Being one thing

And then another

Change brings surprise

Caution stays behind

Find someone after

You leap for

There you’ll find

All the newness

Wondering

I wonder what

If we were

Happy having what

We have rather

Than wanting what

We don’t I

Wonder if there’d

Be less conflict

And more acceptance

I’m happy with

What I don’t

Have satisfied in

Knowing that my

Baggage is only

Filled with those

Things and people

Important to me