This Is Just To Say

You are all
my love poems
come true.
~  mce

For You

All of these words,
the bruised fruit of my orchard,
the only gifts I have to offer.
~  mce

Be Joyous Though You Have Considered All The Facts.

It is a shame
to live in the world
quaking with fear.

After all, the world
isn't afraid to die;
why should you be?
~   mce

Bi-pod Biography

I am a bi-pod.

This is to say
I walk about
erect, though
not so erect
as a few years ago.

That is the me
visible to
the world.

But what of the rest?

Birth, biology,
facts, but mostly
narrative
and finally death.

I am what
I have invented.

A creature of
these stories
I tell myself.

All of that and
nothing else.
~   mce

Sixty

Every morning
I look in the mirror
and expect to see
the face that used to be.
Life passes
short as a shiver.
Yet ineluctably,
all those missing moments
belong to me
as surely as
thousands of pieces
of luggage
lost by a bankrupt airline.
Every morning
I hope in vain
that they will
be on the carousel
and find their way back
to my mottled hands
one more time.
   ~ mce