Water Is Life

you will never see
the pain behind this smile
never see it. please.

Pupcut

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)

the handwriting curse:
ten thousand miles, no school.
what can they learn next?

i didn’t want to
but you made me find beauty
beauty in the snow

Ukraine in a box
looking out at the world 
hoping for escape

find the olive branch 
between the blurred winter limbs
until you have you have peace

Colorado cold:
always room for a cycle 
of moons or tires

we have found our box
not perfect nor expensive 
yet perfectly lit