Love to me has never felt real. Rather a lie that...
Until you...

Sunlight pours through closed blinds
Casting a row of light beads on my pillow...

Waking up to anticipation lingering in my bones
Hoping just to see you on the other side of a...

You were the very glue that held this
family together, our center of gravity...

The historic charm of this old town calls to me
Buried in the hills just below Jefferson’s house...

I plant my feet firmly into the softened soil,
Digging in my toes until they become my roots...

What good am I if I’m just flesh and bone,
When I scare away everyone that’s mattered...

2am in the back of the car
Windows down, we’ve not made it very far...

The line where land meets the
horizon is loveliest at night...

Blackened waves dance turbulently
as I float upon their surface...

This city looks different in the cover of night
No longer crowded with shoving strangers...

The clouds stalk the meadow leisurely
The skies changing into a deep, violent gray...