goodbye ruby tuesday

with the expectation of loss
she loves
temporal and transient

this allows 
for the unconditional
giving she gives 

deeper is the knowing
currency of admissions
she holds safe

as she listens

never alluding that everything 
she does
she thinks, is tinged
with sorrow

and hope
someday

some heart will cling
more than a brief while


"She roll back down to the warm soft ground, laughing to the sky..." Dog and the Butterfly, Heart

in one year

ashes shipped
state to state
interred in third

in one year

my older sister
who is younger than I

"We're gonna rock down to Electric Avenue" ~Electric Avenue, Eddy Grant