THE FLAME TRILOGY A Poetic Meditation on Friendship, Love, and the Leap Between I. From the Quiet Flame His Meditation There is a light that lingers in the soul—Not fire nor star, nor any sun-warmed beam,But something shaped by laughter shared too long,By knowing glances, silences that speak,By wordless walks and kindnesses that flowWithout the […]

I GIVE you this, one thought to keep,I’m with you still, I do not sleep. I’m each of Four Strong Winds that blow,I am the diamond glints of snow,🌲I’M sunlight on this ripened grain. I am this gentle autumn rain. when you awake in morning’s hush,I am the swift uplifting rush… 🌲EAGLES, owls in circled […]

so much dependsupon a folded sheetof foolscap yellowed at the seamscoffee-ringed carried thirty-one yearsabove the heart inside a smallstitched pocket in every dressevery blouse every shirt wornagainst the skin all this timeand Kiki never said the first poemhe wrote her orchard rowsroses on wire baby’s breathat the roots bushel basketsand dusk a walk that would […]

She wakes, and even dishes learn her day, For love has tipped the balance of the light; The kettle trills, rehearsing songs of night, And seconds kneel, obedient, to stay. No task remains that’s not wanted to do, For hope has gilded every common sight; A shadow passes… quick… a hinted flight, And leaves behind the hush of tinted blue. She […]

Before dawnthe sky is the colourof opened flesh, and over the sleeping roofsthe planes pass so highthey are only silver wounds stitchedacross scarlet reds. The old crowon the telephone wireturns its head west. It knows something. Smoke writesits thin scriptureover the world. Not prophecy. Exhaust. Not angels. Men. Men in helmets,men behind screens,men whose handsnever […]