From Hollywood to Ravenswood
Three (short) poems written on a cellphone
Sunday at 6:12 pm
Poem 8-15-20
You spread your angel wings
Like an eagle’s
Across the night sky
And the stars shine and blink
But offer no way home
For you
And your armies
Of the desolate
Poem 8-15-20
In the place
Of laughter
In the place of sadness
Paris and Dresden
St. Louis and New York
The Atlantic Ocean
Touches you and it touches me
We get out and dry off
I’ll have a white wine
Poem 8-14-20
All my life I’ve been looking for this
Come with me now
Take my hand
And fly with me
To the questions
And the answers
And the thing
In between
And above
You are the night sky when the
colors explode
And the songs end on a chord
Of love
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