Cherry

Saturday Night, Sunday Morning

Taxi cab shimmer in the street light glow of a Saturday night, spray painted people like burnt hollow flames licking at the curve of a crumbling pavement, the language of languid sirens

Stealing Consent: My First Visit With My Sister

An account of a family vacation visiting a sister who had married a man when she was 15 years old and who wants to get to know her brother after the time they have lived apart.

Never Slip Away

When the pain becomes too much And the searching goes too deep I slip away When the thought of losing you kills me And I can't stop crying I slip away I go to a place in the distance

Insanity

Funny how something so simple Can be so complex. Strange how a heartbeat Can seem so scary. But here I am with you And I'm scared as I can be. I've never been short on words

Dream

Last night I dreamt That the sun was shining brightly. And the flowers were all beautiful And you were here with me. And in that dream I saw That your eyes shone with love.

Daybreak

Daybreak brings a hope so grand; Only in our torn dreams brier roses Untangling do we begin to understand? What sparkle in the shadows composes The lyrics on the wind quietly broken

To walk in nature as Wordsworth

“To walk in nature as Wordsworth; did, To see the pensive stars in there grid A Moon-white-ice-crimped lake The hilltops burning, slowly; opaque Ashen as autumns, burnished, reds

5

Thanks to a very kind friend, was able to attend last week's prom concert by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (that attempt by Daniel Barenboim to use his art towards conflict resolution).

Creation

quick splashes of the mother boar as she circles the pool in search of him as she crosses the river he reads time in the swaying of trees and when, in the night, each star dies

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