A Tavern

-------A Tavern-------

When the entire world is your best friend

solitude becomes a tavern

where we meet

and prayer

the wine we drink together.

I am not alone here.

Quiet, yes, 

and waiting for your golden presence 

to fill the doorway.

I will smile

and we will dance into a spiral,

atop chairs and tables built by patience, 

forgetting the time,

until the whole room fills with light.

And we collapse.

Side by side.

At home.

Complete.

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A Light Through the Cracks

-------A Light Through the Cracks-------

A waxing moon takes over the sky tonight,

   like a great heron's wings,

unwilling and

   opulent.

Upon an air of joy

   we slip through the cracks

together

   out across 

      this beautiful land.

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Without a Name

-------Without a Name-------

Without a name

I step across the line that makes me human;

forgiving my purpose to everyone 

and everything

unknown.

Please, Dear World, 

do not mistake my absence for betrayal,

for I seek communion in solitude,

as the empty sky is filled with stars

of a kind we cannot ever see.

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Atop the Water’s Edge

-------Atop the Water’s Edge-------

Night is quiet before the frost

as if the lake swallowed every song 

and holds them

for the morning

When mist performs an alchemy of sound

for all those who convey the song

and for all those 

who listen.

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Into Light

-------Into Light-------

To be free of this skin 

for just a moment.

Into light 

or a grain of sand.

The moment 

becomes eternity

and I

again

what I have 

always been.

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