We Begin

Waves carry my limp

Body to your rocky shore

Bundled with seaweed

Gasping with gratitude

Tied and tethered with knots

Torn and loosed from dark sea anchors

A caress across my face and chest

Wind on wrinkled skin

Pasted with sand and salt

My eyes adjust to light

Lungs to air, deep and

Uplifting

My heart to your sky

Warming me in this new place

From which we begin

Rainbow Resonance

Outside the temple I built

For us

You wanted my embrace

And I wanted you

So we stood beneath

A cosmic canopy

Facing a place between

Chaos and conversation

We brought our hearts

On pink fluffy clouds

To hold and to breathe

A glowing orb between us

In those moments that lasted

You sighed

With a hum that blossomed

In rainbow resonance

Growing hope in the garden

Of safety

Signaling my body to relax

In the glimmer and shimmer

Of our auras entwined

As if we’d met there

Lifetimes before

Interrupting the Melancholy of Absence

Interrupting the melancholy of absence

I dreamed we were sitting

In the backseat of a Mayan taxi

Cobblestone drifting below

Red, orange, and pink patterns

Fluttering strands

Between us and the sun

I couldn’t help myself

Blissed by presence

I stroked your foot with mine

Cuddled my face into your neck

You said, “I am a pool of water”

And I knew exactly what you meant