Saturday, April 17, 2010

Vacations

You exist in typed words
and messages left
with intent to reply,

It's spring and oceans
warming to swimmers
hide you from me,

endless blue sky pushes out
and away against the clouds
moving north to find a place to rest,
or readying for rain,

They say you're miles away,
it feels like more,
I'd count them but they don't make tape measures that long,
or so the woman at Home Depot says,

I think you're on an island somewhere,
in the spring, in the summer,
in the past, morning when its night,
a day before and a day behind,

The summer is waiting patiently for your return,
light on steel wings and rudders,
over ancient temples, decayed cities
and painted rocks,

The wind carries word from you,
the spring has your name in its air,
and when the past catches up,
I'll be there to see it.


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