To Sip You Once Again? (For Constance)

The old person

Looking at you

From across the way

I see in your garden

The last honeysuckle

Behind your youthful ear

As you were 20

Unable to see nearly

Five decades gone

Stretched by hearts

So great

Time’s sheet folded

Upon itself

Have I rolled

Closer to you

Along a field stretched

Quantum thin tight

To touch

The fine hair on your neck

Near the honeyed blossom

To sip

You once again?

Life Before And After (For Constance)

Life before and after

Is all unknown

My time is now

My power is here

Fearful guesses

Cloud the sun

My time is now

My power is here

Holiness is higher

The holy agree

My time is now

My power is here

When I’m high

I’m all alone

My time is now

My power is here

When I choose faith in

Moon, sun and sea

My time is now

My power is here

Night turns to dawn

And shore is nigh

My time is now

My power is here

I use my ears to

Find my voice

My time is now

My power is here

I find my eyes

And see your face

HAD I ON A HAT

Here is a little "Happy Birthday" to all you out there having a birthday.

This is Fred Rogers long before there was a "Mister Rogers".

Used by permission.

Undisturbed By Marauding Hackers

Thinking generates fears

As it covers old

Injuries 

Skin does not hide from itself

Skin contains more than injuries

The un-dramatized consequences of time

Live there too

Years of light

Leave the sun

Traveling as far as it can

Stretching vision second by second

Swooping and slingshotting and lensing

As it passes masses

Meanwhile

     On earth in it's eddying orbit

          A coin on a sheet

          Rolling round

          The silly old sun

Years of light bounce off me

Reflecting me into time

To be seen by some being

Ere the fabric stretches completely away?

But 

When time passes here without drama

When love is settled

When self care goes well

When our protected spot is undisturbed

By marauding hackers

Not much happens

But age