January: fragments 1 - 6

leaving
letters
lengthways
or photographs
to commemorate
an ancestor

you an obvious descendent
from a face
that could be yours and hers
superimposed

such is this reminder
so timely
so true

2
over years it builds
this sense
of loss
of something missing

difficult to know
what it is
where it rests

the body stores it
through hip
& groin

letting it go is painful
but then
so is keeping it

3
the building of a wall
compartmentalization
smashing it down
enlightenment/liberation
rebuilding in part
a commemoration

4
leave rose
rust rain crush
on delirious purple skin
& garden
with languid music
sweet
like smooth honey

5
full moon

like a bubble
bursting over the hill
into a misty sphere

edges smudged with cloud
that shifts slowly
leaving a sharp white disk

it travels as the sky clears
lighting pathways
where women walk

carrying instruments
music bags, light coats

night stays warm
music transcends it
heavenwards, moonwards

crescendo, decrescendo
mellow & strong
Friday 13th is sung in

6
I curl into that place
that wants to trust
that wants to believe

just as I get there
safe and sound
I’m shocked out of it

by the truth