stillness

in the span of days

stillness

purposefully and without notice

halts the winter heart

in limbo suspended

unencumbered

uncomfortable

and glorious

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

green-deep crush

lichen damp

‘cross moors

hard

wood

slow to burn

embers woke

She

desires

fifteen and thirty-four

when it comes to

affairs of the heart

that girl
she remains
fifteen and thirty-four

not where she
was supposed to be

yet aware of the world

mooring

gone are they

the holders of her past;
to ash one or two
to dust the other

one still walks about
never to reach
and the final?

new recollections
immersed is he in making

while she wanders
loose in the world


"Here I go when I don't know why
I spin so ceaselessly..." ~ Dancing Barefoot, Patti Smith