1 So You About trying to reconnect with an old friend

1 Memoria Sometimes I wonder about that hollow look in her eyes At night when my only company is the memory of their curious emptiness Glittering, distant diamonds Beautiful and tragic

Secrets These words stuck in my throat Your secrets I don't want them

2 The Painter Close your eyes whispered the painter, And I'll tell you about my masterpiece, The soft rise of my hills hugging the earth, lifting you away from the speck of universe you call home and into the caress of my cotton clouds

1 Memory A poem about accepting time's passing and our resistance to watching our present become our past.

Fire & Ice » Two love poems dealing with contrasting forms of intimacy.

2 Nature's Forgotten Plea A poem about nature's lesson in the style of the Romantics.

2 Business Business, he said. Cold, without feeling, his voice as hard as stone

2 Light's Song An exercise in character description through their room.

3 Pieces of Me I wrote this poem for a special friend who helped me through some hard times.