Dance across the wind
Blown turmoil rises
Up to the heat
Kissed placid

Calm in this desert
Heat making plain
Sacrificed dreams

Slow whispers turn the leaf
Perched on death’s bones
Watching the quiet

Murmur skitters across
Shivers tremble
Tighten

Cold
Bleeds in
Soft skin yields

Riverbed dries
Summers promise yields
Small trickles wending through deep roots and dying youth

Smiles all around
Waiting on the banks
Remembering the glacial torrent

Crisp mornings
Gray light gives way to sun cresting mountains
Pouring light
Into the pocketed dark

Kiss me there
In the grey
Between

Standing between getting what you want
And having what you need
Just Oscillating here
Stuck at the crossroads
Waiting for word that
I’m not alone
Hoping I will meet you
Touch my hand
Maybe we’ll go the distance
Maybe we’re just waystations to something better
Whatever the case
It all begins
Now

Numbers cascade like pebbles
Becoming boulders
Making one bolder
Standing taller
Waiting for the final
WHUMP