Respite
Looking in your eyes, silence speaks;
ETERNITY in
one
short
moment; depths of caring in shades of brown,
ENFOLDED in a gaze, sharing a kiss
from a distance; looking away the walls are up again. --Nicole Planter
Umbrellas I
I
wade through umbrellas protected from the elements and the workings of your soul. hide under the umbrellas scared of the water and who you
Under
really are
the cautious protection
of a thin black mask. —Thomas Innn Duerksen
Sweet, mad jesters, one and Fools for thinking our small, extra taste of freedom has made us more free
A For
mere
all
distraction
our backs, they bind us And put another bolt On the cage's titan door at
-Scott Walker