"By Moonlight"

“By Moonlight”

We’re all mysterious

By moonlight, so hush

Now and sleep so I can

Watch you. 

I love the way your eyelashes

Flutter against your cheek,

Eyes dancing behind eyelids

Caked in mocha shadow and the 

Smeared eyeliner you 

Forgot to wash off again. 

I’d like to think that you’re

Dreaming of me, but you don’t

Even know I’m here.

bright/dark                            4/2/13

"List"

“List”

I’ll add it to the tally of

Things to do someday,

Scratch it at the bottom of a

List that stretches like adding

Machine tape as far as the

Eye can see - up one

Hill and down the other, a

Great Wall of China (certainly

On the list somewhere, probably

Somewhere after “learn to tie shoes” but

Before “age gracefully”) of somedays.

So if you’d like to wish me well,

Wish me a life long enough to live my list.

(tentative)                      4/3/13