Half moon and northern star

Half moon and northern star

Memorial weekend

Soldier Michael Bouchard 

An undying beacon

This Vietnam bracelet

Reminds us to embrace

The fallen, the many

Their names we won’t erase

Easy to see foolish

Easy to see foolish

My own ways corrected

Drawn conclusions sketchy

Right answers rejected

And the heart blundering

For invasive flowers

Experience masters

Gained wisdom empowers

We’re braided together

We’re braided together

Our ends apart then meet

Both loosely and tightly 

A wave or handshake greet

Like Pachelbel’s canon 

Or Ravel’s bolero

We venture and not coil

Forward and not narrow

How did I end up here

How did I end up here

Do all the roads converge

A funnel or black hole 

Or the great water merge

Is it all a circle

Denominator one

Arriving again here

Regardless of begun

Finite in this Ever

Finite in this Ever

Loose threads becoming knots

Tomorrows not todays

Anew amid forgots

All my love to my loves

Our hearts color blending

We were brave together 

Our borrowed time spending

On a day inside out

On a day inside out

Vines and sunshine curling

Paintings without frames and

Troubles dropping pearling

The body dam breaking

Arms branching, legs stemming

The wind in the ruffles

The Earth’s skirt unhemming

New York City sinking

New York City sinking

An Atlantis again

Atlas shrugging lower

An Atlantic mayhem

The hopeless Rapunzels

Scrapers scraping too high 

Poseidon in subways

Cab drivers Captain Bligh