Within these 4 Squares
I operate on you
Creating as creation does

With all of this hope (hopefully)
I survive
Blue skies and Oregon rain

A birdsong reports the days events
As God wraps His warm hands around me
I give thanks

For eternity to be
And the journey that is
Friend & Family

And here I am again,
My girl
Shifting from a chance thought
that in fact memories were
being made

A renegade with a Tori Amos CD
A tattered pair of my 501's
By the way-
Can I get those back?

I was reminded rather quickly
That I was already in love
I wish you never took those pills
You know ones my love

The ones that allowed another man
to take ownership of your heart
Collapsing fragmentation of cuffs
to the hands and the toes

I still love you and I'm cleverly aware
of exactly how much that hurts...

All pleasantries aside

I'm alive with diesel
Bathrooms
Goo Gone
and
Cheap Lysol

A Pendleton plaid shirt
and hot pair of RayBans
Polo green and Redwings

All things I used to take for granted
Because of you
Trees
above and beside (next to you)

I'm set apart from the mira clay
above it all
A good day earned
Like a diamond ring

A spokesman to the splintered
Frayed and reglued; revived
Likewise includes all this-
Including your doing

No expression
Drown my sorrows
Unconscious
Neck (nectar)

Splinter this splinter
It hurts like a noose
Collapsing upon my neck

I'm wide awake within you
I raise a hand and turn a cheek
Grace returns in a moment (that moment)

The thin of the skin
I praise Him