Concert

East coast

Delaware river

A Poem

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You lay bathed in

soft golden light 

cotton sheet carelessly curled

mauve flowers clinging around your legs

your milky skin glowing

the curves lit 

right hand outstretched

cupping the humid air

your breath like soft purrs of a cat

so content and happy

not bothered by

the click of the shutter

my eyes rest on your torso

drinking the glow

like our love as pure as a new spring leaf

July 05 2013

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I long for your tenderness under my feet

your sweltering heat

your full monsoon

your red earth so rich in pigment

your nights of full moon

under the jasmine 

as I stand beneath the catalpa -

it is winter here

the tree is bare

mossy black bark

lean, dry branches like veins on grandma's hands

long, thin pods with all tiny seeds spent

falling softly onto the grass

I see limbs, headless torsos 

soon, spring it will be

I will only see

the lush green on the sprouting leaves

softness in the flowers

and the tree once again beaming with life

I look up

and see the oak titmouse

peeping through her nest

as though to assure.

March 29, 2013

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