(written in July 2023)
Once
Against all hours, days, devisings,
radiant axe and warming fire:
Pulse and grasp cease you. You stillness
gone from streams of light, space and time,
gone to snow once touched your flushed face,
to crester-stone once glanced the pond,
to pond, its laps of shore, their sum,
to ice ceiling once you stood upon,
to sky once above all your loves.
(written in August 2023)
Above Rains
Under spotlights, nights fantastic,
fixed Neptune learns self, matching Mars,
two men loving bold, spiral life
aloft above rains. Years, books, pen,
booming waves. Beyond city of death,
years peace in timbers, pen blazing,
old work new earth, deliverance.
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(Deliverance from the city of death and pain
because you survived the death of the one
worth more than the world to you,*
that deliverance too comes to an end.
Love. Love boldly. Even with all this pain.)
[In the photos with music,* get the music going,
then return to the FB photo while the music plays.]