Take Satori Where You Find It

Resting after lovemaking;
my cheek against your thigh
sticky with our spent juices;
I experience sudden illumination:
I have found the glue
that binds the world together.
  ~ mce

Resurgence

For four years
the store front
of his life
had a sign
on its window
that read: Closed.

Now the sign reads:
Open for Business.

We shall see
what comes his way.

But Open
feels better
than Closed.
   ~ mce

Do The Math

The Iraq War cost
three trillion dollars.
Tonight a mother
and her children
sleep in an
abandoned car
in Detroit.
Something doesn't
add up.
  ~mce

Wallace Stevens

"Poetry is a cafe."

Poetry

The brain
picks the words;
the spirit
sings the songs.
  -mce

Brevity

Consider
what a lifetime
means.
 -mce

Love at 60

 ~ for CB

It is the
unexpected flower
blooming in
the melting snow.
It is spring
in lost winter.
It is unlikely:
it is surprising:
perhaps it is
a gift for surviving.
In any case, thank you.
I am delighted.