Worry Stone

I drew I love you in the sand 

the waves took it away

you're a shadow 

an ache somewhere 

you're a rock in my heart

a stone i should throw

instead, i drew your name in the sand

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Southbury:

An icy moon hung above their silhouettes -- black satin lovers punched from a sheet of traffic haze at dinnertime on a Tuesday. They'll go home to bake a chicken, toss butter on baby carrots, and fall asleep wound around one another as if they never intend to let go.

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So Says The Sky

As lightning lights and the frightening frights

a storm comes crashing in

on thunder feet and whipping wind

a storm comes whistling in

its wild torrents swelling 

rushing runnels pouring

rain forever whispering

that it's storming once again

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Walking through a lingering summer warmth that these days easily fades, I know she's searching for a place to sleep as shadows steal the day away with an eager dusk. Autumn wakes.

I've got no name for this

a thousand times i think of you

little rips and tears

but who cares

you had that something

sunlight and diamonds

silver spilling off the moon 

you slipped through my hands

but for a little while i was there

you were something slicing through me

a million spinning blades

never mind this ache

never mind this empty hollow

for a little while i was there

with sunlight and diamonds

An Old Friend

He remembers me like i'm still there

says he feels me near

where summer's candy sunsets bled 

but that was a thousand yesterdays

the rest of it was coming

autumn's cinnamon footsteps creeping

toward bad luck and shattered dreaming

back then, when I was there

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Orion fell sideways across a black September sky near dawn, a sign of summer ending.

Never Gone…

That was no gentle love

it hurt me

i keep thinking I gotta forget you

but you tore me inside

you're never gone

you're my cry without echo

a dark love without dawn

i can't forget you

you tore me inside

it's never gone

spent a year without rainbows

couldn't make you come true

you're a song inside

i can't unsing you

you're a bleeding sunset fading

you took something of mine

how can i forget you

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Mature oaks already wear the rusty signs of autumn -- their leaves drying while younger bursts of green cling to summer's emerald and jade. 

She lingers a few minutes less each day. Cooling nights push her warmth away. I love her and I'll miss her. Seasons change.

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Of things I remember for no reason at all

I saw you dancing with her

something broke inside

i should have said i love you

and i do

i do

tell me why my heart breaks

over you

i used to crave your laughter

i still do

were you really with me

or passing through

i think i really loved you

what if i still do

i still do

tell me, are you happy

with someone new

i craved your arms around me

did you really love me

i wish i knew

wish i knew

i caught fire when you kissed me

were you just passing through

tell me that you're happy

but i'm not through

loving you

why does my world break

why does the rain come

when i remember you

now i've got this heartache

tell me why my heart breaks

don't tell me that you're happy

are you happy

i love you

i love you

bye bye

Summer's yawning August days are slowing

the rhythms have snagged

blooming is dying 

daying is nighting

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Just a glimpse

The pen must have shook in his old hands. 

In a coffee shop on an unremarkable Monday was a flyer folded and forgotten on a chair. Between coupons for free home security and a community church were cursive words: did you know that I am a very poor man? I didn't see my family, my kids.

Where did he go? Did anyone care or know the old man reading a flyer with a pen in his hand?

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I don't have much tonight

I am tired as hell

been watching the summer burn out 

dead leaves falling

it goes like that

life and then nothing

laughter to silence

bright pink blooms to black

but we get it all back

this will happen again

it goes like that