13 Ways to Look at a Button

I.
Among the leather of coats
A button
Holds it all together

II.
Alone
The only one who sees me
is a button
the eye of a rag doll.

III.
Napoleon�s Army
Lost to the Russian cold
Their tin buttons disintegrating

IV.
Resting on the dirty ground
A lost button
With a frayed thread

V.
In my pocket
I mistake a button for a coin

VI.
The only thing left to remind her of him
is a button
from his favorite dress shirt.
She cries.

VII.
Late last summer he fell in love
With her sun kissed button nose

VIII.
Answers linger beyond the door.
Locked.
The impermeable code of buttons.

IX.
On or Off
A heavy choice
Made so often by buttons

X.
O, citizens of earth
Loathing and fanaticism
The end of the world
Is just a button press away.

XI.
A small treasure
A child finds a misplaced
Button.

XII.
The wind whispers �shh.�
Somewhere
A button fails.

XIII.
It was early morning
And no one has ever sung
A song for buttons.

Saturation Adoration

Dew clings like kisses on green leaves
Your love is moisture to my soil.
All summer long there was a drought
And I withered with pure sun
Waiting for you to come again; to saturate my heart.

With every single drop you rain
I soak it up like affection.
Eagerly I consume your fallen love
As the water rises higher
Remembering a time before you; my soul evaporating.

Rain clouds cover up the sun
But still I drink the rain.
Submerged in water, I beg for more
Liquid flooding out my roots.
No need for light; I have you, my sweet precipitation.

Soak me in waters deep
Inundate me with adoration.
Engulf me in the flood
Immerse me in passion
Love me until I die
Drowning has never felt so good.

equal and opposite...

Look at me with your eyes
like reefs of coral; blue deep
and smile.
When I say I love you,
you can't help
but move
like electricity pulsing through you.
Kiss the small of my back.
Your face feels rough
like pine needles; I want to touch.
Feel me whisper in your ear.
I send a shiver through you
like cold heat; you gasp.
I take you in with a breath
and it feels
like we are whole.
Every sigh I live for.
I see you adore me
like trees love the breeze.
You move me.

Seeds of Silence

Your hush falls bitter cold as snow
and congregates at my feet.
They fail to fall with any truth,
You lie to me by omission.

Once our words were infinite
and poetry would rain, our flowers
our seeds of truth would grow.
How quickly seasons change.

This snow, this silent killer of love
It buries us in achrome
With each word unspoken
I die a bit more.

Erst I saw a land clear of white
Honesty warmed my core
I breathed unfogged
All lies would melt.

But, still, you do not speak
Blinded by snow I know
that in this sickening, delusive blanch
the seeds of silence here is sowed.

I May Not Remember

I may not remember your smile
how it was rare but beautiful
like the northern lights
we could see from home

I may not remember your favorite color
a dark purple, nearly black
your spirit was too bright for black
but you saw your life as dark

I may not remember the time when
You saved the fish trapped
in the creek during drought.
Who was to save you?

I may not remember the sound of your voice,
I may not remember your favorite song
I may not remember or ever know why
But I will remember your favorite flower
I laid it on your grave.
Forgive me.

Ballerina

Name a song
I�ll sing to it
in front of crowds or
just the room
but
while the records turning
and loneliness is singing
I think I am a ballerina
and I let the music
mold me, move
My limbs into graceful
arcs and coils

Name a song
I�ll play it
my fingers moves so
quickly cross the board
but
all I�ve ever wanted is
is to dance with poise
instead of clumsy plunking
Or cracking voice.
Let the melody control me,
while I dance alone.

Break

Bone scrapes along black pavement
A crack and disconnection
Wrap me up in your fiberglass embrace
A smothering protection
What lay beneath my concrete cast
Is a crushed collection
Of bone, muscle and raw nerves
A joint without its flexion
I pick the gravel out of my knees
A week after inspection
But all the while my body still
Is beginning a resurrection
Mending the splintered bones and scars of
Absolute broken perfection.