Poem: Only Ash

The girl with ash-colored hair
Sits among the ash trees
Wearing the sun like a halo
As she waits for a train
Carrying her absent lover back

Poem: Waiting in the Gilded Cage

Lena was raised on violin lessons
and minimal parental supervision
like a wild animal pacing in a cage
she grew licking her lips in hunger
at the world outside her gilded prison

Poem: Moment

The awaiting
Exists here
Between then
And now
And to-be
With breath
Held still

Poem: Felt Hours

Walking through old memories
Where the heat of your body
Kept me warm between sheets
Soaked with the sweat
Of our passions intwined

Laying in a bed grown cold
By your absence here

Poem: Still Hoping

I packed my bags and sat in the car
With the engine idling and me thinking
About global warming while waiting
To see if you’d show up laughing
Bags in hand sun hat on ready
For some big adventure

Poem: Comma Haiku

Words withheld by lips
A comma pause between us
Unfinished story