Valentines Day Poems

Beneath Wild Azaleas


as published in Southern Light: Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets

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Sprouted on the thinnest soil
Rooted to a rock
Footholds in fissures
Dappled sunlight
Scattered on your leaves
Nourishes root and branch


Icy water numbing toes
Above a waterfall
I cling to a rock
Upon a cliff
Water cascades to the abyss


Only you and I see
The girl with the golden hair
Haloed by the sun
One hand in mine




Moonbeam

As published in Southern Light: Twelve Contemporary Southern Poets
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Flame red hair 
Dressed in black
Surfing down a moonbeam
She dances under oaks


Bare feet on mossy turf
Gathering shed skins on snakes
She buries a dog skull
'Neath tobacco and herbs


Pale skin in bare moonlight
On a mountain top
She presses next to me
Full moon burns through a tree




Time's Geography


From an out of print chap book


Behind the waterfall the reds 
and blues sparkle and shine


Behind the rushing stream the
rainbow forms and dissolves


Leaving the illusion
the droplets flow downstream


I emerge from the river
They flow down my chest and arms


A fire of driftwood warms me
Logs burned cannot grow again


I cannot cross time's geography to where 
I held you close, felt the beat of your heart


I collect my belongings from your car port
Leave my key, and float downstream

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