Just to say, You a beautiful being Are taller than the trees; already, the ground moved Beneath your feet

The only promises I’ll make Are the ones you’ve already seen i… I swear, on my life. Paradox of poem and silly sky So is life, on faith we dive.

Remember, we were young Let’s meet at the courthouse And try to get all our freedoms ba… Whatever you would like to do, We might get distracted, have coff…

All of that was After they knew. I travelled the continent to say be careful I’m sorry

I hope you get your dreams From where I sit I cannot see. I hope you are in gilded light Near it does not surround my eyes. I hope you have sound peace

All the cars have been robbed There was nothing in the vans They made gold of air The radio blares pretend And the traffic’s rough again.

I want to marry you That’s the way it is, true Not just paper, or for show In the way only we know It’s true, already though

To truth, It shows What love it is that glows, That wagons wheel, Birdsong Cardinal flash, river stone Garden grow

Iron doves and death The world can sort It’s sordid mess. I am not alone Who does not have

As the wind settles Eyes grow dim, tired still In the morning we begin again In so doing, if you can Please do not pretend...

Turpentine and willfulness Robins and terns, with etching sti… We gliding by, whole as much in ou… No it’s not nothing, an epic, for… For surviving with the beauty we h…

I hope you are warm, well, and fre…

The issue is, We, those of us who did not come h… Willingly We’re too red And white

We are Greek, in a democracy We are not pawns for autocracy, We the characters of an Odyssey, Are not your lies for tooth fairy, We are humans with lives you prete…

We are all, who never willingly to… Blue light home, flashing yellow s… The world in between, on whose sha… Flashes yellow and red, and spends… Intruding time, we cannot fix