DewDrops

Outside my window

I spy tiny

Glass ornaments hanging

Off of leaves

They mirror and

Magnify in little

Ways things around

Them and if

I listen closely

I can hear

Them scream weeeeee

As the fall

And bounce to

The floor below

Adventurers (for Jordan)

And I remember

That night in

The tent made

Of blankets and

Sheets we were

Explorers in the

Jungles off borabora

We pretended then

Creating lions tigers

And creepy crawling

Things with hands

And fingers and

Flashlights eating beans

And hot dogs

Just as sleep

Took hold I

Felt your fingers

Poke and tickle

Making me squeal

It’s like that

This morning many

Many years later

Us still adventurers

QuiteAnother

And yet again

I am that

Bear the boy

Outgrew the bike

The girl forgot

The letter unopened

And the ornaments

Stowed in attic

I’m the deserted

Baseball field the

Empty beach the

Quiet carnival and

The vacant bigtop

I am alone

Once being something

Now quite another

YouAre (for Javian)

Your voice to

Me is like

The soft chirp

Of deep forest

Crickets your body

Is a tawny

Calm pool found

By mistake while

Wandering through thickets

Your eyes like

Far off galaxies

Upon which I

Wish and oh

Your smile like

The early morning

Sun which breaks

Free of linen

Next to me

TheOne

I am but

One blossom in

A field of

Wildflowers one

Tree in a

Wood one snowflake

In a blizzard

And one raindrop

In a downpour

The difference is

That I’m the

Flower in your

Vase the shade

In which you

Sit the flake

Caught on tongue

And the drop

That landed softly

On your lips