Lines

Your almond eyes are contours
Your head, a haloed silhouette
I won't soon forget the rio banks
Or your last night in my bed.
Your little toe may never grow
But even he is outlined too
The lines I see shape everything
Both in and out of view
Around the trees are stenciled leaves
Each blade of grass is lined

White colored pencil stenciled lives

The drawings of my mind

Listless

Tooted horn,
The scourge's scorn of shore.
The listless mistress and the fishes
Tug the captain forth.
Maiden, laden,
Hard to starboard,
Or smash against the rocks.
Captain, laughing,
Can't resist her,
Brings her hard to port.

Between

Between then and now
Between here and there
After space and after time
Before the heart repairs
Between love and loss
Between tried and true
After all, I was after naught
Before I first met you
Between if and when
Between how and why
Before it ends or after amends
What's between you and I?