Goodnight

I think

Goodnight

As I slide
Between cool sheets

Goodnight

I think

Goodnight

As I stretch
To make myself
Comfortable

Goodnight
I think

Goodnight

As I curl in
To myself

Goodnight

Hit Quit

and look
out the window
raise your eyes
from the sidewalk
and be surprised
by someone's
gorgeous garden
lush purple
petunias cascading
over stone
dark scarlet
geraniums
in the shade
against deep green
turn the page
and look up
Svengali
invidious and
Savonarola
change
direction
listen

Momentum

The point at which
You realized you
Could not have
Stopped
What
Had begun
Desire passion irration
Inertia
It had
To come to a head
And then crash
And burn
Its own energy
Propelled it forward
To disorder
Entropy
And its aftermath
Years of confusion
And disruption
Fission

To Lucca

On a hazy day
Driving the soft curves
On the quiet east bank of the river
From warm dense humid air
To cool
Tunneling
Through the dark green
Leafy linden canopy
Their swollen blossoms
Hanging heavy
With intoxicating scent

3 AM

Puddles of light
In the sheen on the streets
Rain crackles
From the gutters splat
And night birds chortle

existential sonar

if there isn't
anyone
to bounce your thoughts off
do you exist

Night snow

blankets the rooftops

sifted through the streetlight

muffles 

Pinging in the New Year

My phone pinging off the hook

As I drowsed warm and cozy 

And everyone else celebrated 

Together eating and drinking the 

New Year in and me wishing this

Year over already 

I was over it

My reward waking at the firework's blasts

To see them through my bedroom window

And wander window to window

To see this magnificent valley

Light up in every direction

Six helicopters hovering
Or zipping to and fro

And blinking orange and red

Just to have the view I had

From my warm window for 

What is hope but the
Rejection of sorrow