In the summer there is a rush antithetical – A disordered summoning from somewhere Other. A call to the wild. A returning but a newness. You are a friend waiting to take my life. You show me how I am filled with emptiness, like a vase. You do it when I wake up, when I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘friendship’
Friends Without Benefits
Posted in Poetry, tagged fall, Friends, friendship, Living, passing, pumpkin pie, summer on May 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Older Still
Posted in Poetry, tagged drinking, friendship, gin, History, Israel, JD, sister, Time, Woman on January 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I met her when her eyes were still juniper berries wild and potent if not slightly toxic the way she could stare you down. Her kicks ran constantly with her arms indicating the direction of her whims. Toward or away the tides moved with her will. We feared the same things, and fear is in [...]
Lost and Losing
Posted in Poetry, tagged friendship, life, Living, losing, Love, owls, work on September 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The unlived life is not worth examining and though it is better to have loved it is better to have lived than to never have felt pain or the loneliness that comes with having friends and lovers like owls. They leave when the sun is up with work to be done so that the sand [...]
Agudah
Posted in Poetry, tagged brother, family, friendship, Israel, Love, relation, sister, union on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You don’t call me friend but brother, Using my devotion for your shield. Danielle my belle, Age has a beauty revealed far more glorious than the others. They’ve made stars from your eyes. They don’t like it when I call you sister, such terms imply a blood line farewells from brain cells – We have another name to [...]
