Tea Tree
I have a tea tree
she bleeds caffeine
I listen to her speak like a babbling brook
with my face under the leaves
sunlight speckles
silence thoughts
with laughter
and strange desires
a woman of the world
sip, sip sip.
Summer Again
Soaking up the rain and whipping spit of the waves, as he stood next to the ocean of my memory, a fire hydrant in a red windbreaker, glaring in the midst of a water storm, how I wished it was summer again. Matching silver rings and glances over coffee, army jackets and annual cigarettes, looking at the stonework on the buildings forever, necks craning to see the falcons carved like gargoyles, high enough, on their third story ledges, to amaze us but not so close as to pose any real threat. Under the willow tree, I will always be, with his hands on my shoulders.
