Here! Have some of what’s been coming out of my brain lately.

I remember how we were

I took you home after a year

Breathing milk and sleepless nights,

we had a boy each for six long weeks

We were untouchable as God

We were flawless as water

Do you remember as I went too far?

You cried to me, and for once I was

the mother. Old man Time couldn’t

have destroyed us then.

We were unstoppable as wind

we were powerless as sand

It was always the both of us,

even when there was three,

until e had to go away: I wanted

to destroy something beautiful.

You were stronger for your experiences

I was still learning to grow alone

We came together once or twice

for one night stands. Times of

beauty and comfort shattered by

the silence of weeks and months

we were broken as the cosmos

we were as large as ever

I always admire and respect you. It’s

hard to fit how much on just four

lines. Peach, plum, pear, we sure are

cute for two ugly people.

I am happy again

though the photos give me that phantom

limb sensation

don’t forget it was my choice to keep you away.

I never said

forget.

And, here’s something else

Spiraling down from the sea

tongue drowned in starlight

You’re lost in descent

You’re caught in flight

Intoxicated by free fall,

you wonder how you can screech

or seek to call a name

Broken, burning feathers

The smell of glass below

s it draws closer

You are the frame of man in a coat of God

battered but proud

arms pump, ribs bellow

filling your lungs with fire

waking the red sea

tendrils of ash and embers

until you plummet underneath

caught in the heat of Mother Sun

you never flew so close

You never felt so warm

and so here you stop

never to fly again.

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