32

i say goodbye to you again

you and your steel angel

two days

two weeks

two years

knowing a greater expectation

is asked by all below

you never minded the call

their heeding, their needing

you and your steel angel

return to the sky

valiantly circling from above

watches over my honored heart

and says goodbye again

31

can i fill this need

with one pour of me

a soul dark and bitter as italian espresso

seduce my stranger with scents of

jamaican blue mountains

touched by jakartan skies

and raindrops on machiatto kissed skin

dripping columbian curls with caramel ribbons

caress whip cream pillowed lips

sweetened with a french kiss

can i fill your need

with one sip of me

consume me

keep me up

keep me waiting

just one question i want to ask

how do you want me in the morning

how do you take your coffee

30

March is here

this haunting banner that means war

summons the deathly shallows of Winter

trapping me in its bitter isolation

a hesitant pattern of constant graying ground

and sobering frigid skies

surrounded by sulking naked trees in vertical slumber

held captive in silenced stillness

and its hollow breathless sighs

with darkness encompassing most hours

of somber scenes I can’t remember

and quiet stars lost in falling frozen tears

impatiently waiting for its first full moon

my March is here again