On A Rainy Friday Afternoon

I was watching wind write poems on the sea

falling in love with pink scrub roses and dunes

their sugar scents and a sliver moon

i want to give my heart away

a bottle, a pen, a note afloat to you

on an outgoing tide on a rainy afternoon

The daffodil’s sudden yellow made me gasp in the morning sun
where yesterday there was none


i’d give a penny for his thoughts
a lifetime to his dreams
if they were about me


but sometimes dreaming in the wine
isn’t worth my stained lips


i would give a lifetime to spend a day in the sun
dreaming in black and white shooting stars
find love like lightning
where yesterday I had none

got a shiny penny for that?

Snippets From A Sunday

At closing time the blues man played

head bent and heart like a rainbow, he sang

one of these days i'll catch the right train

one of these days i'll do it for me

i hear those guitar notes again

rising like an April sun unlocking me

how does it happen

a tornado inside me

under a new moon's dark pools 

your soul like a mountain came 

in a fog i thought you might love me 

but the hot pink light outside the bar went out again

years and months could go by

but a day will come

to put you down

to walk away and be done

don't you have somewhere else to be

somewhere that you'll forget about me

A dying day's light shined on the lake

you thought you might love me

watching steam on my coffee cup

i knew it was time

a tide rolling away

my things stuffed in a bag 

i felt like nothing 

one day i'll catch the right train

one day i'll do it for me

a waterfall inside me