The grass has grown and dried. Children have grown and sprouted w… My auburn head turned to gray. Dreams have flown away Many seasons ago.

Great, lonely snag, Overturned, roots exposed, Licked clean by salt water Of endless tides. Naked branches Reaching from shore sands

How tender my gaze upon you As we lie in eternity like glacier… Our bodies melting into each other… In half-sleep, half-dream. I study the landscape afore me.

Insistent, yet gentle and knowing, Fingers of Spring Break open the stale shell, Long overdue to blossom. Insistent,

How are we to know Who are we to ask What we are meant to be And what’s our life’s task? Each of us a warm light,

Close your heavy eyelids Rest your weary soul With a gentle kiss upon the brow I send you in this lonely boat Across dark waters

Monotonous thunder Of metal on metal At the speed of Great Transsiberi… Reverberates in my eardrums. Thousands upon thousands

The thinnest of threads, made of s… Runs from my heart to yours. Frail and delicate, as it’s nature It’s beauty unparalleled. For it is connecting your soul to…

A meeting at a crossroads Peppered with stop signs, We recognized a kinship, Two strangers’ paths converged. In sharing of the sidewalk

I have devised a thousand smiles To speak in place of words, But there is a special smile of qu… I have, that’s only meant for you.… I’ll save it for the day of our me…

The stars are not your friends And moon is not your lover. Your flesh is singed, Inferno from within Won’t let you die,

So this is why the rain has floode… The sky knew I wouldn’t have enou… So it cried for me. It wept for me, Muting

Her life was not a poem But the nails that hold a house to… Her young years are shrouded in my… There are no old faded photographs Of a young beautiful face,

My mouth is closed. My tongue is arrested. I muted my throat, I’m trying to speak with my eyes. When I’m tired of words

Fellow traveler, Don’t play hide-n-seek with the U… It will outsmart you. With our feet bound by gravity We won’t reach wisdom of stars.