Archive for January, 2022


Apparent

I can see them
hiding there 
in the woods
despite their
camouflage

cc: Chagall 2022

Friday, 4 Slices Each

When the pizza delivery-guy leaves, I say to myself 
Now don't eat the whole pie
then out of nowhere I blurt out aloud
"Yeah, that'll be the day!"

cc: Chagall 2022

Happy Little Christmas

Instead of pine 
over my holiday
chocolate-peppermint
graham-cracker caramel
bark nearly gone,
I simply make
another batch

cc: Chagall 2021
Sentience is God, thought is time, 
we cannot grasp how vast either is
because we are 
both 

Oddly,
whether you believe
God is or God isn't...
you end up here

(sung to the tune of All Or Nothing At All)

cc: Chagall 2022

Filament

At times, I miss the living
as much as those who've passed

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Sometimes Fusilli

Though slight, 
petite, the road 
through her stomach
led to her heart, 
oh, how she loved
my bucatini carbonara

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Beautiful Rotation

The heathered pink and blue of
this dying winter's day, reminds me
joy is tinged with sadness, 
while love and sorrow be
a singularity

How the trees' wood turns golden 
in the gloaming!

We of the canopy there
in the dying light, hereby...

Stripped branches like veins
reach to the indigo, 
as much above ground now
as rooted below

Stars be our blanket,
protect us from the wind
till dewy 'morrow

cc: Chagall 2022 
I retrace the lines
Gray faded handwritten note
Deep crease through her heart

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A Foot Maybe More

I tell her
it's starting to snow
she says
it suffices to say snow falling
I kiss her and ask
why not then simply snowfall?
she closes her eyes, whispers
maybe just snow

cc: Chagall 2022

The Curl

I've a fleeting memory of
having once been prescient of
this very moment, long ago
imagining myself one day 
thinking back.  

cc: Chagall 2022