Face The Facts Of Fall

Leaves drop dark trees
hard to catch first out
shaking the food dish
works every time

The trick is only inside my mind
go anywhere and I will tell you
who is older and older still
that's why I would consider
staying here forever

The Victorian era hall
all the treasures of an alcove
and boasts two mezzanine levels
just imagine the renovation
happening in the distant past

The Building And The Skeleton

You know
what they go to
even without
seeing
their numbers

I think you look
at me this way
because I got
unlocked
by you

The Unlock

your keys

are many

each one has its use

so many doors

waiting 

to be unlocked

The Night Belongs

Night rests her head on the moon.
I did not figure you into this life
aren't you from one of those

we lived back then so happy
too much water and then none at all

we traveled to Yermo and back
spiders gathered under rocks sticks dust

Maybe you'll become a week a day my life
if not now then when the singer sings it

I am captured held hostage
by your smile just like all the others

Night Of The Mouse

Tracy Chapman sings
if not now

then when

the song
a sort of
promise

to the night

and my
homeless

memory
is raw
and exact

let out
into the night
onto some ferns
in the courtyard

What It Took

My hands touch.  the door
I leave my prints
too late

 B.     B.   wipe clean

a suitcase my hairbrush
a poster with bicycles
your face

what is inside you.      what

the mask is what you put on to show.  the world
who you really are

 try to change.    your mask. match
the impossible world

What I Told Myself About Beast

What I told myself about him
did not change
when it was supposed to

leaves & their trees
all the rest--

how do I say
I have found my twin
when there was nothing lost
in the first place