Blossoming

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

Leave(s)

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)