Quotes

I See Myself

I see myself on every street

Each pair of brightly sneakered feet

Each warm hand clasping onto love

Each bareboned branch trembling above

Faith

Of all the ends

And all the starts

And every in-between

I asked the moon

To give me faith

And here is what I gleaned:

She lured the waves

To sandy shores

And set the wind at ease

She asked me, she said,

‘Go to water

Wade out past your knees.’

Beyond the breaks

Close to my heart

The peaks and troughs grew wider

I balanced on my tippy toes

As though on a wire

Standing up

Against the waves

I swallowed my own wraith

Surrendering

To something else

Now that was having faith

Halfway

Meet me halfway, darling

Come at your leisure

Halfway is a point

That we needn’t measure

It may change in time,

Or under life’s pressures

Wherever it lies,

Halfway is my pleasure

Something New

You, You

Always you

My old-fashioned

Something new

Spring

In steady silence, the sunrise sings

Light dances on a sparrow’s wing

The golden bells of tulips ring

Heralding the dawn of spring

Maze

Let’s begin at the end and then switch back

These seven years of days

Trace our steps between green walls

Till we’re outside the maze

‘Cause we know all we needed now

To twist our former fates

Time unwinds at every turn

It’s never not too late

Q.R.V.

At the end of the day, should your whimsy foray

To a place of indignity

You may step in direction of rousing affection

But it’s only Q.R.V.

Sundays

Sundays, he still gives me

Does he think that I don’t know?

For each one feels the first one

When I had to let him go

Faeries

On my street, faeries abound

In dappled light, in trinkling sounds

They lick lollies of maple sap

And wear petals as dainty caps

Grace

Force the future, think in haste

Hurry on, pick up the pace

What a willful, woeful waste

For slowing down reveals life’s grace