JuneMorning

The mornings clouds

Are like a

Freshly steamed bathroom

Hiding everything including

Planes and sun

The clouds hang

Like freshly stored

Winter coats in

A cedar closet

Waiting for next

Year or Saul’s

Heat on this

Late June morning

CoalDiamonds

I’m something to

Many and nothing

To the others

Like coal can

Also be a

Diamond but likely

It’s just coal

To be used

Burnt and forgotten

Rather than kept

And finally revered

SingYourSong

And you’re quiet

Absent like a

Student from school

Your desk empty

Blue you said

Yet I worry

You’ll emerge again

Like the summer’s cicadas

Singing your melody

And making noise

Which is music

Only to me

EarlyMorningUsTime

Awaking to silence

I hear breathing

My own and

Yours as I

Stare into darkness

Grabbing my phone

To write you

Stir have I

Awakened you or

Are you stretching

Like a cat

Turning to me

You drowsily stare

Like a child

Wondering how how

What I’m not

Sure surely knowing

That I write

Then I feel

A kiss on

My chest followed

By a hand

You knowing I’m

Doing what I

Am and me

Knowing what you

Mean to me

ThisMorning

This morning’s sky

Looks as if

Saul dumped a

Bag of cotton

Balls there with

Long white streaks

Like a cats whiskers

The tree tops

Glow like big

Nightlights yellow and

Green like early

Autumn gourds spindly

Trunks shoot in

All directions like

The spokes of

A bicycle as

Birds gab and

Rumor about chill

Here this morning