poetry – Page 35 – Poems from in between

A notion

I tilt recklessly through the day, buffered by your tender forgivings.

Jenifer

Rain smatters the windshield, streams from my car over the interstate,

Jenifer

Somewhere in the silky trill of the early birds my memory finds you, and in its deep wanderings

Jenifer

When I look out over the empty lake at dusk, and see the overturned sailboats lining the shore, and the day feels full and tired,

Jenifer

I sail in my tiny boat, skimming across the water, gleaming in the sunshine,

Jenifer

There is a deer grazing in our woods behind the bunkhouse,

Jenifer