Jul 11, 2011

White Endless


If zero had a color it would be white -
sitting at the heart of the whole numbers spectrum
shedding all color from thereafter.

There is a strange sadness in watching love
dissolve into thinning days
as it abandons the soul
it has known to be home.

Forgetting finds existence in silence
like the pensive gaps in a poem.

It has a weightless feel

like poem endings

like zero

like corollas of red rose delicately nudged
by the wind trailing on a pond.

Forgetting is white -
white endless.






Feb 7, 2011

PASSING

It took

five

fingers ruffling his hair

two

faintly moving, watery eyes

two

hearts beating against

two

chests,

one

lip resting on his right shoulder,

one

other lip idle and bare,

one

frail exhale
to voice a powerless soul, and say
-defying the ebbing minutes-
“Stay”