Holding Space

Would that all who’d seen fit
To have been unkind to me
Have their childhood wounds healed

Here, look from my window

Flower and vegetable gardens
Fruit tree and fire pit
Baseball, my love, baseball

Rebirth

Brought your A-game, the victory, yours
Punted away the ball, nothing to lose?

Found a penny, pockets so full
Left it laying to corrode, not worth wishing upon?

Rose, like no other, name you dreamed of
Loved with abandon, but for her thorns?

Find you she will, she who’s your own
Knot unending, what prayer will find you?

Final Fall 

trouble walked in 

The popular, colorful kind

The cowardly kind

The kind too unkind to call ahead

Or wear a capital T, so at least you know

Now, except for the fallen and frozen leaves

The Heart has no proof

For trouble won’t Tell

It’s The end