death – Swamps to Mountains

A Promise

I wish I could send you away In the grandest finale Like a burning comet through space In the same instant Never release your hand How to let you go With a promise to never forget The little things grow larger And consume the corners of my heart My chest burns with a fire So… Continue reading A Promise

Blue Damselfly

How do I become a blue damselfly? Hopping from purple clover To purple clover, Quietly stalked by little ones With sweaty hair and bright skin, Just out of reach of the shadow Of their fingertips Blackened from digging for worms Underneath the old cypress tree By the seawall. I’d flutter onto honeysuckles With just one… Continue reading Blue Damselfly