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Snapshot Poem 29 July 02009

today it's the koi
catching the light
as they emerge from dark water

your family, my family
at the surface of dreams
so thin, that skin

between today, and then
I go back, again
and again, I reach

for you but grasp
nothing but fog, opaque
and elusive, I wonder

how they will ever get me up
on that horse, the ranch
dry, as it always was 

snakes in the sagebrush
rattling their warning
the deep bell ringing

cows coming home
home, home -- one kiss
that's all I ask

   

Snapshot Poem 15 July 02009

  

my past came to visit today
we sat together in the garden
both thicker, older, milder

each carries memory of the other
each carries memory for the other

we stretched out our legs
rested our shoulders back
watched the koi drift in the pond

& pulled in our nets of memory
each, for the other