birthdays as i age
are all about the blossoms
(petal by petal)




even candy blooms
from a fasting student’s heart
here, home, on my desk

birthdays as i age
are all about the blossoms
(petal by petal)
even candy blooms
from a fasting student’s heart
here, home, on my desk
you become a leaf.
that is how you leave this place.
quietly. in green.
two lone trees, seed-grown
sprouted from the last wet spring
we might ever know
what he hates the most
is just what i love the most
marriage: compromise
there's a hollowness
in these hallways i know well
(yet know not at all)
i have lost my words in a flurry of failures swirling, not snow.
you will never see
the pain behind this smile
never see it. please.
my newly groomed pup
with his new shovel squeak toy
my baby’s so cute
trying to win grins
(dinner, Hamilton tickets)
to fight her sorrow
two days after snow
it’s like it never happened
(wish life were this way)