goodbye – Reaching Joy

Ashes

I can tell you that it’s some kind of broken heart you left me with, but I know it’s the dream-ending-type, the illusion-dissolving-type, hope flowing back to your new America while I’m back home. For all it’s worth: I loved it. I loved looking into your eyes even with some anxious energy in mine. IContinue reading “Ashes”

So High

I stare at you up on that pedestal I’ve been building brick by brick, so brightly you glow, so quickly you show me I can know love by where my heart goes. So why I am the one who says hello and you who says goodbye? Only in the middle do we meet, eyeContinue reading “So High”

White Houses

When someone lives both near and far from your heart— where do you go, where do you start to make sense of that sense of loss, that sense of time passing like a train past white houses they have sat and waited, sat and, sat… I see Paul in a fresh tuxedo and his brideContinue reading “White Houses”

Goodnight

Goodnight, sweetheart, until we meet again, and when we find some time to spend so well; so long, my lady, sixth street still sunny while singing, “I’m the one,” until next time, my friend, and I’ll see you back again, spreading those wings like a bird that dares to fly, no bat of the eyeContinue reading “Goodnight”