Look Deeply — Things You Can Find
My dreams stretch along
a certain expanse of highway
where space hangs
in loops of golden unison
where the ghost towns mix
with sunflower fields
Even this flat land is
beautiful now…
me
the concrete
velocity
and
desertion
I could go on
forever
avoiding the end
pushing the limits of…
Love and Loss and Southern Comfort
In mid-July
the heat reverberates
makes the thought of comfort
dull
my footprints trail
the thick blades
of St. Augustine grass
the smell of
Confederate Jasmine
heady and heavy
Around the porch corner
I’ll meet your memory
framed by spilling trumpet vines
caressing the painful ecstasy
of slow loss
These…