and there she sits
with whiskey and a pen
staring off into the muddy sky
dappled sunlight
mind adrift
in nothingness
and everything

ice lit trees for miles

houses with no borders, no fences, no boundaries

corner stores where everyone knows your name

empty roads that stretch for miles

deer munching on the front lawn

then dancing away

dogs off leashes

quiet time to read

skies that stretch your imagination

rivers that flow tidal bores

music jam in the back 40

laughter

people who grew up 'ya just around the corner, there, that one down there'

like a scene out of fargo

icicles so beautiful and so deadly they could probably kill you

wood piled high at everyone's door

a deep calm and warm presence

and a family trapped in the 50's to make it all the more perfect

tranquility, grace

and love

calamity 

when worlds collide 

and borders fall

when boundaries shift

and love conquers all

when eyes give new meaning

to seeing

when hearts 

beat to the tune

of the universe

when freedom means truth

then i will be free

skidding through life
passenger on a crowded bus
entering every day we jump in the abyss
or do  we play by the rules
fine line between jumping and dancing
on the edge of madness

we kiss my body full of desire you pull me in to you your heat envelops me i can't breathe i don't want to breathe you take me and i am home

i can't look at the sky

without thinking of you

i can't take my first breath

of the morning 

without the soothing 

inhalation of you

i can't wrap my mind

around my day

without wondering what you're doing

you have given life to an embattled soul

you have helped me find truth

you have given me love that i never could have imagined

you have given me myself

i will love and thank you forever

sometimes when we kiss
your exhale
becomes my inhale
and the universe
takes over