Can sweeping moths settle,
Sink neatly, swathed by shadow
Onto lightly curling leaf.

On white fluorescent light
They are blinded, and
Are spun in carousel circles.

My light blinds me too,
Keeps my eyes spinning
In carousel circles.

Near or far away
Your God will love you either way
High or low to the floor
Your Jesus still waits at the door
Happy or broken to bits
The Holy Spirit still persists
It's never been about the state you your being
You've been loved since the very beginning

54

If I should die,
And you should live—
And time should gurgle on—
And morn should beam—
And noon should burn—
As it has usual done—
If Birds should build as early
And Bees as bustling go—
One might depart at option
From enterprise below!
’Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand
When we with Daisies lie—
That Commerce will continue—
And Trades as briskly fly—
It makes the parting tranquil
And keeps the soul serene—
That gentlemen so sprightly
Conduct the pleasing scene!

The gall ink slid slow across the grain
not just black, but silent breathing.
It curled where silence might remain,
where truth lay soft and seething.

It danced in fibers, not for show,
but for the ache of meaning
each line a pulse, a moment letting go,
each word a quiet keening.

The letter held no voice or name,
just petals and a thread.
But still the ink remembered flickering flame
long after it was said.

And when the lamp gave one last sigh,
its breath a final stain
the ink still moved, too bold to die,
alive upon the grain.

Le vent de l'autre nuit a jeté bas l'Amour

Qui, dans le coin le plus mystérieux du parc,

Souriait en bandant malignement son arc,

Et dont l'aspect nous fit tant songer tout un jour !


Le vent de l'autre nuit l'a jeté bas ! Le marbre

Au souffle du matin tournoie, épars. C'est triste

De voir le piédestal, où le nom de l'artiste

Se lit péniblement parmi l'ombre d'un arbre,


Oh ! c'est triste de voir debout le piédestal

Tout seul ! Et des pensers mélancoliques vont

Et viennent dans mon rêve où le chagrin profond

Évoque un avenir solitaire et fatal.


Oh ! c'est triste ! - Et toi-même, est-ce pas ! es touchée

D'un si dolent tableau, bien que ton oeil frivole

S'amuse au papillon de pourpre et d'or qui vole

Au-dessus des débris dont l'allée est jonchée.