MIST CREEPS (written with A.D. Fallon)

In between lovers
who cannot kiss away
incommunicado hearts

the distance marks its
presence by the slow
fade to gray
of once familiar
terrain-the body

the warm touch once felt inside
now the cold heaviness of distance
as walls close in
absolution turns to suffocation

the press of silence, of
spaces between where once was
filled with the other
now embraces air

people change
and forget
to tell each other.

A.D. Fallon and Gary Jurechka

circa 1998-1999

(Note:This is a collaboration piece written with April D. Fallon, the poem is credited to both writers listed)