Friday, June 12, 2020

some time

sometimes I remember one specific sunset and wish
for that microscopic 
moment
& for the vital things like heavy blankets, grass-covered toes, and the black notes on a piano.

sometimes I have all those things but forget about the tree 
bark we collected, it was intricate and left wood powder on my book,
about our first summer dives into that pool and about how I gradually became used to holding your hand. 

I don't know how it happened. But

some times I'll remember all that
makes the good things become more like real things 
the colors in your eyes more important than the stressors... 

sometimes my heart spills out 
normally, down my arms, rolls across my wrist, off my fingers, and stumbles out, away and toward the green 
trees
the mountain 
the quiet wild and it all says I do good to let my heart 
go 
first
(more often),
the rest will follow

it's normally there
that I feel God touch me 
y'see he's the wind
and his voice rustles the trees and whispers about letting 
my heart stand up 
more often.

"Look up"
but I wanna look down and
see myself 
from above, 
live in thinner air and clearer skies,
and watch peoples' eyes when they look up at God.







from everett mills

Thursday, June 11, 2020

weasel face.



(today is) 
clouds 
out my window in my head
(tomorrow is) 
rain on my roof
smells fresh clears up my brain
then (summer) 
90 degrees and swimming 
(we'll be back then back to work)
and the weather is always asked to be an excuse
the sky is always carrying interference and Light
she is the ocean
we live on her ocean floor
we can't swim, we just look upward at the marine life and 
play i spy with the floating mashed potatoes


call me whimsical
but I will listen to old jazz

and smell pines.

one of life's
wrinkles
(gentle, smile creases)
is to sit among flowers and feel wind brush my face. 
I hesitate to write it down because I want to relearn over and over, often.

it will always be true.