Painting My Husband

His squarish jaw, waggles when he thinks, holding his fingers entwined at his waist. He stares past his silvery frame, sinks into mind, until I break in and say hi. His thin silvery hair, is plush with curls at neck. He stoops over as if time has weighed in I see him counting, saying what the heck here’s a bird, a butterfly, noisy squirrels. His hands have a pain in them, all webbed inside, pulling muscles taut, but they wave they stroke the air, my legs, the seas ebbed the sand, the sky, building the future in mind. And when he picks up his violin mistress, he dances her, never still this man of mine. His harmonica hoots the day’s stresses, digging out his soul, bending him like grass. Sometimes I have to silence his motions, hold him close to heart, let him sleep. But always he plays out his commotion making me music, making him mine.