Saturday, May 1, 2021

Clear Now

We feel so much

That we cannot touch…

We say so little

With so many words…

And then it happens…

And then it is clear…

Sensations cease…superfluous

Words too…

All inadequate in expressing

That one thing we try to do

With words and bumbling acts…

And we discover

That to love

Is to allow love

To have its way with us…

Not us to have our way

With each other…


Forbidden Fruit

  Enters horned desire with bowing grace But scant regard for the thorned trunk That it must climb To touch and taste And pluck from its pla...