Short Tread Water Poems

I wait for the deluge
To see Arizona's Coast
Join hands, tread water....

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slowly I tread water
weight of the world on my shell
who invited the elephant
donkey sneaked aboard
gravity of a city’s weight 
bears down on me


*Written April 29, 2014...

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Trying to drift
Not wanting to make waves.
Watching the deluge grow ever deeper
Submerging resolution with it's coldness
Drowning thought with it's weight.
Too tired to tread water,
Trying just to stay afloat.
Looking for something to hold onto
Being scared and all alone.
Darkness starting to take over
Knowing that I'm going down.
Held under by my numbness
Please God, I don't want to drown....

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Autumn is a frozen church
We wait at heavy doors
That smell of rust,

Not a Moon cold enough
To be called heartless
Or breathclouds of old steam

More an estuary of
Dumped mist afraid to ice;
The taste of wax on your lips,

A frame of hair round a
Hatted face, out steps as slow
As if we must tread water,
 
You are ice and rain and
The first crystals and even
More than this, beside me.

(for Carl Sharpe)...

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I didn’t even try 
To drown in the sea of your blue eyes
If only I could be promised a loving sight
In those bright blue eyes
But I fell hard and now I’m paying the price
My weak heart stabbed by the prettiest knife 
Now in this pretty blue sea I have died 
If only I’d tried to tread water for so long
Now I drown deep down in the big blue beyond
I’d give anything in the world to be
Not just another girl lost in the big blue sea...

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