clicking tap shoe echoes
through a hall of mirrored stages
a million miles of sold out shows
fill his worn out pages

the book is near complete
the curtain is descending
his ears know no defeat
for the applause goes on, unending.

face ripples in watery reflection
straining to see the bottom
i crouch for further inspection
and vanish into the colors of autumn

baby owl faces.
next world of forgotten air.
timepiece creatures work.

gratitude montage
crisis jesters love to death
passage of legend

honest expressions
that come from our one, true self
make us our own art

nothing like an unexpected embrace,
a gift of surprise affection, to teach
you how to embrace the unexpected

when we ask, do we
believe, or do we ask so
that we can believe