Poem: Careening Towards the Finish

Time is like the slide
we climbed on the old playground
from the top the bottom seemed
far away

Poem: Adrift pt. 2

The current of life carrying us
Moved along hidden paths
Driven by unseen obstacles
That we try to navigate

Poem: Adrift pt. 1

The stone skips smoothly
Across the rivers surface
It’s changing as it’s changing
As we’re changing

Poem: Afraid of Stopping

There’s a flurry of motion
Then a stop as she gathers
Her dress and scarfs around
Sitting pretty on cliff edge
Peering into the precipice

Poem: Backroads Approach to Life

I live life like that teenager
Driving on backroads
Just drunk enough not to care
Where the road will take us
Just buzzed enough to have faith
That it’ll all work out in the end

Poem: Before this Moment

Before this moment I lived with a palette of grays
All the shades of monochrome differentiated
Lights and darks instead of vibrance and saturation

Poem: The Living Part Two

They walk the old boardwalk hand in hand
The first place she asked to go on vacation
Telling him it reminded her of her youth
He agreed wanting to see her smile
Like she used to smile when they first fell in love
Instead he saw sadness in her eyes
And a quietness that reflected past memories
That she still hides from him after all these years

Poem: The Living Part One

She holds a hand wrinkled by age
A long the sand cooling I sunset
While younger couples run by
Hand in hand laughing between kisses
Reminding her of a young blond
In a polka dotted bikini at the beach
On spring break in nineteen seventy one

Poem: Being Human Is

This being human is being vulnerable
It is bleeding and breaking
Followed by healing and scaring
And wearing those injuries
As badges of life lived and learned
Without fear of hurt
It is being unstoppable