Love on for Size

Ephemeral love.  I took it

out for a while.  Did not 

quite fit

who 

I was.  Asked 

more from me

than I think

I

have.  Needed 

more than I 

wanted to

give.

Tucking things away

is easier, I said, to

no one in

particular and 

everyone

in general 

on the streets in the

subways on the seas

in the air.  Not a 

word in reply.  Only the

beating of

the hummingbird's 

wings.

Sunshine Afternoon

All the way to the waterfall we talked and it

was hot and sunny and good.  Then it was 

cool and breezy in the shade and I liked that, 

too.  More, I liked when you touched me

and I closed my eyes to 

be there.

Rainy June

What overcame me as I
sat there with myself I shall never
know.  I only know that
violets were shedding
fragrance and quotations were
piling up against the walls and
suddenly I was thinking
of what it would be
like to see you
again.