Fear and shame
Gripping at my veins
Are we both
Feeling the same?
Doubt clouds
My memory
Of the love
That we shared
Do we both
Feel the same
Outside forces
Bring a consistent
Storm
The clouds bruised
Looming over us
Our new ceiling
Lightning flashes
Thunders crack
Epp! Will you hold
Me & protect me
Through this storm?
Do you have a rain coat
To get through it?
Dance & kiss me
Sweetly through it?
Or will you run inside
Deadbolt the doors so
No one or nothing
can come in or get through it?
Will you stand beside me
& withstand this storm?
Hold my hand & walk through it
Or are you all just the same?
Saying promises one day &
Then fleeing another?
Will you stay & embrace me
In my pain?
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Sunset. Synergy is moving between chairs
that don't quite match, widening tight circles
of rovers. Muses Cafe, a small cove where
views internalize, so we heave heavy troubles
outside. Minstrel Mary Anne Epp shelters
songs about happenstance. When a server drops
a plate, she ad libs, Save cracks for later.
Heads nod to her witty vibes, bite-sized bops.
Inspiration strums as parlance sighs, Good grief,
my journal's at home. You say, All's fine.
but your purse offers only ONE loose leaf,
curiously room enough for TWO to lay lines.
Pens groove. Friend, you prove that poets can wage
self-determined verse while on the same page.
*For Kathryn
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