Seething injustice grows
Vineyard with deep deceiving roots
Exponential expansion
Bears insidious fruits

Don’t water the crops
Don’t eat a single grape
Don’t drink the wine
Bring to fiery waste

Midnight wolves bear down
On the campfire of my sanity
Menacing, howling, advancing
My outward calm, inward storm

Stared too long into abyss
Flames burn low
Vigilance fades
Fangs rend flesh

Colorado mountains climb into thin air
And demand two reasons to be speechless
Peaks that quench and ignite existence
And silently demand reverence

Beauty and terror wed
Uncanny companions
Hardest and softest thrive
Unspoken and unspeaking
Ascending conquerors
The spider and the flower

City lights cascade down the hill, like a luminous waterfall
Dark watery horizon flirts with the skyline
Stars accent the heavens - grammar of the universe
Sand melts into my feet
Waves bathe my ears
The soft wind shares her secrets
The sea is the wine of shore-side lovers

I wish your taste danced on my tongue
I wish your voice kissed my ears
I wish your touch lingered on my skin
I wish your aroma embraced me
I wish your eyes loved me

Only tonight, my empty arms sigh

When I taste wine
I taste your soft lips
When I feel my sheets
I feel your rhythmic hips

When I play soft music
I hear your quiet whisper
In the dim light of dusk
I trace the curves of your figure

In our habit of silence
Pierce unspoken splinters
All is well on the surface
Below the root withers

We drift along slowly
A shallow river of wine
The shoreline grows nearer
All things end in their time

Summertime in Berlin
City of possibility
Quaint and lively
Large and small
Soggy and crisp
Comfortable and borderless
Perfectly flawed
European cornucopia
Harsh language, soft smiles
Birds awake me every morning
Neighbor plays Bach loudly
U-Bahn here and there
Perfect coffee while the perfect song plays
Perfect barista with an English accent and lovely smile
Smooth and lucid caffeine buzz
"Must try before dying"
On to Italy soon
Farewell, sweet Berlin

Seas and weeks apart
Sometimes fated connections
Let time dig a grave

Banish confusion
Revive possibility
Don't fear the unknown