Letters of engagement

Letters of engagement
Affection at distance
Yet close proximity
Is met with resistance

Just like the saying goes
About the fonder heart
Always growing stronger
When they're farther apart

Here at the start of Spring

Here at the start of Spring

The Icarus in me

Pivots towards the light

Like the leaves on a tree

Above the freezing mark

Snow shrinking on the lawn

Soon crocuses will rise

The initial Spring pawn

Our Sunday best and whales

Our Sunday best and whales

The film superimposed

In between waving hands

A dorsal fin has nosed

Too young to understand

That stars never twinkle

The fabric of our lives

Cannot be unwrinkled

Reality is not

Reality is not
Some form of invention
It's uncontrollable
With mere intervention

It's sloppy and cruel
Yet its errors precise
Both beauty and chaos
Stars thrown like they are dice

Past the center of mass

Past the center of mass
What we see becomes saw
The process of aging
Time and nature's one law

Yet no want of return
Spring and Winters old
There is yet a future
With petals to unfold

The grandest of hopes lie

The grandest of hopes lie
Lifeless in a prison
Never having freedom
Like light through a prism

Waiting to be buried
In a stoneless graveyard
They cannot exist when
Reality is marred

Surrender my future

Surrender my fortune
And give up my good name
Forsaking the future
For a moment, the same

Breathe light into darkness
The two of us as one
These fractions forever
Not loose pieces, a sum