River’s a satin shard

green silver green

like a young girl’s dress

a breath, a song, a robin’s flight

for a moment there

we were magnificent

youth coating limbs

faces flushed with new love:

a breath a song a robin’s flight

I return to you changed

now we love in whispers

our kisses muted

caresses gentle

a breath a song a robin’s flight

the dead appear in dreams

take animal form

and all we’ve left behind

imprints on retina.

River’s satin shard

like a young girl’s dress

I return to you changed

now we love in whispers.

This is the last love

no eyes across a room

no interrupting chatter

this is a haunted love

we struggle to release

I return to you changed

now we love in whispers

a breath a song a robin’s flight

I return to you changed

the melody’s unclear

my voice shatters.

our kisses mute

The river is a satin shard

like a young girl’s dress

For a moment there

we were magnificent

majestic in our glory

 I return to you changed

now we love in whispers.

Cold moon

bitter moon

huge in empty

space:

crucible of winter

bites & birds

scratch for seed.

I’m planted on the

edge of time:

blistered by this;

all that is yours

all that is mine

snaps a frozen

unison.

Cold moon

bitter moon

frost numbs

feelings crack

iced pond

shatters.

My mare whinnies

waiting at field’s edge

like me she

seeks shelter.

Love runs deep

&  hidden:

our love

volcanic

erupting

molten

created & destroyed

worlds.

Love runs deep

unspoken for years;

am I dead to you

dead to you?

Do you only appear

in dreams to make me

cry?

Goodbye

a short word

that never says

enough.

We never said

enough,

when was

the last time

I held you?

Love runs deep

a cavern

where the river

never sleeps:

it washes away

the dross of years

rips the blindfold

of other lives

& am I dead to you

dead to you?

Love runs deep

& hidden

you’d say I was

untrue,

I’d call you traitor

to the muse

that haunts me:

whatever’s said & done

or left to do

love hasn’t disappeared

& in my dreams

I miss you.