Dear Eugene Part Two

You will inherit
the acre of coins
(dandelions)
palace of icing
(garden shed).

Rose trees (no scent)

daffodils
lemon pepper.

Return to them
Rinse slowly
allowing for thaw.

Dear Eugene

I like your hair the way it falls
the way it springs when you walk
around the town your flannel
waving then passing by
across the bricks of the square.
I had a terrible vision of you
married to me to Tatiana
she didn't appreciate your swagger
back then and now I question
the relationship thus this letter
telling you of my feelings downtown
in the middle of Eugene's windy
rainy rose trees and azaleas.

Passageway

The tree is visible from the den
blossoms hanging onto branches
wild promises for now wild notions
at stake even ideas at stake  matching
words long grasses almost warm
almost lost the calendar says:

nature flows where rivers rush
waterfalls roar into the web of life

salmon, bears, hungrily the shore
waiting complex, constant
habitats continuing upstream
in the important flow.

Close To Spring

So fast he forgets how to fly
Among the ruins of last century.
So fast I would have missed him
Except for telltale signs.

Those flowers their birds and bears.
Our berries we shared even though
They were not exactly mine
Douglas county and all my being.
What time is it now so late so early.

What do I need to do in this life?
This is time grabbing pulling?

Lesson

I thought the future would be less difficult
Especially when it came to poetry
All the end-alls and be-alls
Up the sleeves of the supervisor
But what did I expect?  A free
Plains on which to roam
Hooves and claws digging in
To dreams I have not yet dreamed?
Yes, that's what I thought
What I wanted to learn about
To feel it--freedom--for me to
Admit, allow into my thoughts
Feelings anything but strict

She Said

unlike any and you
aren't the least bit
boring dearly broken-in

person of interest
she said this is heaven
the rest I'm guessing.

Beautiful Day

No two fish quite the same.
You see the upside
Down.
Magenta altostratus rumpling
Young thoughts
thinking.
The dream again.
More.  And counting.
Painting the cave
So fun with you.
In it?  As subject?
Great bear. Wishing you.