Seven billion strong
and each one of us
alone in our thoughts.

r ~ 3Mar14

In deepest wood
  A home once stood
Roses bloom by chimney fall
       An old stone wall
Lines remnant trail
Gives heed to open well
                     Where lilacs trace
                           An empty space
                       And fills the air
              With scent to wear
                 An apple tree
       And mulberries
           An old home site
                 In morning light

r  ~  9Mar14

If you often have
great *** and are good with words,
pen that **** for all.

Love poems
about a face just glimpsed
echoing in memory.
Singular dark eyes,
pooling the shadows
quick words, one handshake
and another for goodbye.

Impersonal
competitors
living hundreds of miles apart
unconnected
yet he draws me outside of myself.
I love not him,
this one I do not know,
but the metaphor -
what he is -

The sere winter wind
rasps my sleepless eyes.
Roads and roads away from home
across a snow-blinded parking lot
we are
missing one another
silently.