Category: Poem

• Poem

  Wishful thinking

  I want to see your heart. I want to peel away your shirt: open the buttons, one by one, lift the fabric from your chest, lay my head on your skin. Listen. Listen, then look deep, deep, into the caves where your secrets lie. I want to make sure, in…

  Apr 19, 2015
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  Fierce broom

  Spring pulls back the rug points at winter’s housekeeping and wields a fierce broom. ____________________

  Apr 14, 2015
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  Assassin

  In the dark, warm air stokes its breath, eyes dawn’s snowflakes. Winter starts to die. __________

  Apr 9, 2015
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  Mad for a moment

  Fling open the door: the wind blows cold but we hear chickadees and as the snow peels back smell mud a hint of greening and Spring’s buds inching toward light. Impatient to be out of its woolens and flaking cells our skin clamours to be bared against soft sun, our…

  Mar 29, 2015
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  Weightless

  From the chair I stand but tumble back outside the snowflakes at the glass hover windless weightless my knees buckle at their suspended beauty ____________________

  Feb 28, 2015
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  Feed me

  Feed my winter heart, my famished, desperate eyes – pour sunlight on the snow and brew my spirits’ rise. ____________________

  Feb 22, 2015
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  Weather warning

  Chill wind blows me right to your door. Open your arms, bundle me inside. ____________________

  Feb 15, 2015
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  Geese will arrive

  The air bites, sharp as Winter’s kiss. But wait: Geese will arrive, necks stretched, wings spread, pulling a softer wind to wrap our fresh-bared skin. ____________________

  Jan 3, 2015
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  Baking Day

  I had decided to stop licking every spoon in the kitchen Then along you came with your pecan and sweet potato soufflé ____________________

  Dec 25, 2014
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  Another day of grace

  I want another day to walk on the earth another day to dream big dreams to believe life can be whatever I ask for to think I will live forever I want another day to pet the cats change a flat tire get impatient with my lover burn the cookies…

  Nov 30, 2014