2000-2001 a Few Favorites

staples hanging file folders gawk as we skirt around in friendly conversation what’s apparent in you voice everyday taunting me with the thought of someone else in your arms Each Passing Day I see my Father More ice melts as this wandering dissention gains the resemblance of aging clumsily every morning hairs lost speckle my pillow, bathroom sink, and counter deftly comb my hair to the side with a smirk A Bird Softly Chirps Outside My Bedroom Window 6:34 am so spring’s started sun’s begun to bring some warmth to the past four days of cold and snow measured in increments of feet still clinging to the trees desperate for life shoes growing tired of wet clinging sand 3/14/01 Mid-Spring Dreams Rain has gone Leaving the first patches Of awakening grass Awkward as our love On this rainy night You silently debate the presumed would Forever be Static in the Air Life’s transformed to stress Scribbled poetry’s a mess Passion redirected into sporadic fits of rage Fretting the former ease of unblemished page Candy Unanticipated lapses Midnight whispers Lead to painstaking Goodbyes Hearts breaking Only to erupt again with love Our conversation’s revived