Saturday, May 29, 2021

When the Children are Gone

 We will sleep until the sun paints our eyelids red and drink coffee, black and hot, from fragile cups. 

We will lay in the grass, holding hands and singing songs that our parents sang first, as our skin pinks.

We will cook elaborate dinners and not spill a drop from crystal goblets trimmed with gold. 

We will be alone. So terribly, awfully, wonderfully alone. We will fall in love again. A new beginning at the end.


Monday, May 10, 2021

Waterloo

 This 

is my Waterloo:

you, 

the farmhouse,

I, 

sick and 

so alone,

desperate 

to reach you. 

What screams 

you will hear 

before I surrender;

what blood 

will paint 

your fields.

And yet, 

I cannot retreat, 

cannot find 

a different hill 

to die on. 

This 

is my Waterloo:

you, 

the distant farmhouse. 

Thursday, May 6, 2021

Convergence

 Unknowable bliss-

to just live, with no regrets-

heaven, here on earth.