Paper Airplane
A love,
once crisp and fresh, follows the passing of time. Flights of fancy become flights of fantasy, as the sharply folded pleats slowly come undone. Plummeting earthward, crumpled on the ground. Irreparable, and ironically recyclable Tempe, Arizona, 1963
a scent of sunshine
baked into sheets on a line certain smells take me back a little boy, eager, struggles to keep up her gentle admonitions oft repeated "don't let them touch the ground, honey" methodically we folded longways, longways toward and back, toward again every week, just her and I while the girls were in school all her troubles subsided and for that little while my world seemed right longways, toward, and back rem
disjointed vignettes
in early morning slumber the passionate nothingness so nonsensical and disturbed colors the coming day within a subliminal world of no dark, and no light just every shade of gray |
Haiku
stoned in solitude
memory evaporates before it happens Horses
I'm thinking of Horses
from memory I can hear them talking quietly against the early light of dawn silhouetted milling and moving together effortlessly their body and spirit carry me Blossoms
nature yet lives
in a small town the apricot tree blooms like so much popcorn this bittersweet spring it's fragrance a memory of warm sunday cobbler Micropoetry
dark familiar pain
this mental flagellation the light, elusive soft, subtle movement
tiny cones make healing sounds joyously, she dances contrails from my flights of fancy dissipate and disappear another dream unborn |
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