All dressed up

Where can I go
To follow
In your footsteps?

To wander
In your stead

All dressed up
To go nowhere
In particular

Lucid dreaming
Takes me somewhere
Far off

Still the sky
Covers us all
Until nightfall
We deconstruct

Consuming warmth
To stay our idleness
To stoke the fire
Inside and out

To tell you
How much
Is enough
With Love
Gruyere, Switzerland

Village people

It takes a village
So they say
To send them
On their way

Hands full
Of love
Breakfast crumb
Tea cold swill

Drowning
Not waving
Smiling
Frustrating

Who will be
Just be
With me
In revelry?

Storm brews
For longer than
Cafe crews
Stronger

Arms are tired
Holding up the sun

When fellows farewell
One by one
Who is left
But Mum

They need their village
People
Online only
Locked in
Wholly
Sleeping in
till one

Are we allowed
Some fun?

Hope hurts

Filling trenches
Sweeping dead leaves
Planting new seeds
Weeds are salad greens

Expectations of future
Change is waylaid
Contentment is paid
Out in daily mail

Playwright tonight
Stack the deck
Pawn in check
Win and genuflect

Dark horse rooms
Ask me my stars
Swing me in bars
Strum my guitar

Never knowing
How to play cards

Show me your hand?
Fragment of a frieze, Eros. Berlin Museum.