Dragonfly

Dragonfly, teach me
to hover in the air, far
from this heavy ground.

Delicate

Sun, feasts on bare flesh.
Sky, spies these delicate moves.
Moon, keeps our secrets.

The Roadtrip: Chicago - Part 1

Late El ride, walk to

Humboldt…I’m easily lost.

We both are tourists.

The Roadtrip: Waterloo

The land flattens through

Minnesota, Iowa.

Corn, everywhere!

And in Waterloo,

swimming contest victory,

and late night ice cream.

The Roadtrip: South Dakota

South Dakota - an
unsettling blur: Presidents'
heads, changing landscape.

Peace comes with morning;
we find each other, having
been lost the night through.

The Roadtrip: Wyoming

Peaceful Wyoming:
mountains rise, majestic;
snow falls lazily.

The sparseness enchants;
We stretch our legs, wiggle our
toes, breathe, and relax.

The Roadtrip: Idaho

Lava Hot Springs, where
we soak in mineral pools,
steam twisting slowly.

Midnight bubble bath
drowns our travel weary aches;
we laugh, like children.

The Roadtrip: Salt Lake City

Our day on the salt.
The crystals crush between my
fragile, naked toes.

The Roadtrip: Eastern Nevada

Nevada still. Full
of brothels, gambling, and the
creepy Red Garter.

We sleep one more night
in this land of excess; when
morning breaks: Utah.

The Roadtrip: Reno

Reno: We fight, make
up, run out of gas...and leave
our demons behind.

We wake up renewed,
forging forward through desert,
bursting with fresh joy.

The Roadtrip: San Francisco

San Francisco: We

set out, full bellies, the sun

dripping behind us.

I am my own

My hips sing out an
anthem: I am my own field
of hills and valleys.

I am my own gray 
ocean, deep with mystery.
I am my own moon,

harvesting tides of
bounty. I am my own strength,
quiet and constant.

Night

I'm the black night, a
strang'ling cloak of darkness, seen
nor missed by no one.

Ode

We ate happily,
loved, laughed, slept - deeply and well,
and woke with fresh hearts.

New joy

Look, there! Our laughter,
lifting us far above old
pain, forging new joy.

Navigate

We navigate well
these hills and glens, these joyous
lakes of ardent heat.

The twirl

Breath halts. Hair unfurls,
joyous, across my cheek. I
exhale, then embrace.

Rubies

I'll steal the pain that
lives in you and crush it to 
rubies at your feet.

My indifference

My indiff'rence can't

be loosed. If I only cared

enough to vanish.

Unexpected

Sun, unexpected.

It washes away self-doubt;

blissful hope remains.

Rebuild

Rebuild this fragile
house of cards, why? The wind seems
to still find the door.

Heartbeat

This pounding beat, that
heartbeat, both strong and soft, shake
from me the doubt, fear.

It chases demons
away, so that only sun
shine and I remain.

Weather

This changing weather.
It leaves me shivering and
searching for shelter.

Untethered

That pressing weight, it
says I'm alive. Without it,
I float, untethered.

Drift II

I drift so fast, so

far, without will; I'll be a

stranger come night fall.

Good Night

There's no need for those
final, fleeting words when you
know they've been spoken.

Every time

Every time is
the worst time. It's a wonder
I still feel at all.

In the Eye

The eye of the storm
sits calmly, bracing for the
ever circling winds.

Uncle

A friend and father,
always with a joke, a smile,
a tale. Loved, and missed.

Drift

Thanks to my weak heart,
so inconstant and afraid,
I'll stride out of reach,

Beyond your grasp. But
all the while, I'll pretend that
it's not what I want.

Tomorrow

Sometimes you just need
to have faith that tomorrow
will come, unannounced.

That Brightness

That brightness you crave,
it slips into shadows when
you least expect it.

Hovers

It hovers inside,
the hurt, where it's placed between
us, protecting me.

The sting

The stings of neglect
shrink with time, but the pain still
starves for one more meal.

In the quiet

Oh, quiet joys: The
sound of your breath when it meets
the back of my neck.

She

Why is it that what
you speak distastefully of,
you embrace, my dear?