ItIsLove (for Davion)

There is but

One thing not

Tied to age

But makes everything

Else matter makes

Everything breathe and

Grow and end

It lives beyond

And beyond us

It’s something that

We all have

And rightly give

It is love

There (to You)

I awoke still

Sleepy absent dreams

Like the wolf

Missing the moon

Howling reduced to

Whimpers not himself

Calm like fresh

Snow newly fallen

Lest wind driven

And the sun

Breaking eastern skies

Quietly and tenderly

Vanished of clouds

Simply these for

My heart is

Full knowing that

You occupy your

Space there like

Your window of

My advent calendar

Lifeguards (to De)

And then finally

We were at

Long last face

To face studying

Eyes and smiles

Forearms and hands

Fingertips dancing along

Veins on hand

Or fine wrinkles

Near eyes inching

Closer still closer

Feeling each others

Breathy lipped humidity

When at once

They touched closed

Then open finally

Breathing life into

The other silently

For the first

Time us lifeguards

HappyBirthdayPiggy

Do you remember

When or how

We did meet

Hey or hello

But Piggy oh

Piggy we became

Friends and the

Occasional lover but

More you became

A vase in

Which the bouquets

Of my poems

Sat blossoming and

Blooming for the

World to see

Readers help me

Wish Piggy a

Warm birthday on

This happiest happiest

Happy of days

Happy Birthday Piggy

Fall

And in spring

And then summer

We are alone

Popping and absorbing

Sweet the rain

And warm sun

But then fall

Arrives as bitter

Chilling winds which

Tug and pull

Us harshly limb

From limb until

Torn we tumble

Down landing upon

Each other learning

That we all

Aren’t that different

We simply think

That we are