Thank you to John Page and his team at The Academy Of The Heart and Mind for publishing three of my poems today.

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On The Day After Your Medical Moment

Your image, the oldest of the photos

Lying within this album of faces and souls.

You asked forgiveness the day before you died,

Then slipped away when my eyes turned aside.

The rattling heater cannot stop the chill

That is shaking my bones, though my world stands still.

I’m running tap water as I rinse my teacup,

One of the activities that helps me get up.

Another act, wandering to and fro,

Upon tiles, the only place I go.

I can’t go forward with you right now.

We can’t go back, it’s one thing time does not allow.

I’m hoping my hypnotic steps will take me to you there.

I’m not certain, but I think I know where.

Some day I’ll find the door to that place divine.

I know the path you’ve taken, I’ll follow in time.

All Fates In Time

All fates in time

weave great things.

The structure of yesterdays

shapes our art,

and guides our feet,

allows our eyes to see the sky

beyond our reveries,

and brings to us

better and more sacred days.

I’m Just Here To Watch

The sky is storming yonder now,

having passed over on its march

along our now recovering skies.

The pines croon.

Their cones hang between

never scarlet nor gold leaves,

but beside needles of emerald green.

I am sitting with wonder,

observing these bent down branches.

Why did mother robin

build her nest atop them?

And why so high?

So high that it was hard to hear

her little brood sing for her attentions

until nature drooped them closer.

Her life choice,

made in full defense,

to thwart predators,

of which she thinks

I am a member of that notorious club.

So, to convince her,

I will sit quietly and just look.

And, I will just listen.

I will enjoy watching their little beaks

jaw as if they are singing an opera,

and their little wings flap.

And, when I grow weary,

I will walk away,

and leave them with all good wishes

that, with the next storm coming,

they will be able to hang on.