“but in our stars”
We wonder whether we can ever find
Each other in between our words and signs,
Our gestures with our hands and arms. We wind
Remembered kisses as if valentines
Among our pains of exile. Not just lochs
Divide us; more like oceans, time-wide seas,
Pacifics have spread blue tectonic shocks
In love between our would-be helices
We wanted wrapping us, we two around
Each other in the space of soul. Life hit
Me, hit you harder, knocked you to the ground
In love of one who made love’s counterfeit.
Somewhere between romance and words we failed
Or fate smashed us, our certainties derailed.
~ Phillip Whidden
by phillipw | Feb 21, 2025 | BO, GA, GU, LO, RO |