Surreptitious Balancing Act

Between longing and loving
The last letter of gravitational force
The first law of adverse attraction
Me on top of ice cream
Pickled beets and sun-dried oranges
Wasted mornings
Broken mirrors
Cracks in the sidewalk

Between you and me.

Ten Thousand Songs Sung to Children

We sit
and sun
rise

Take this veil
Make me
whole

Smoke and filtered
feelings
ash

Love or is it
want
?