Becoming Legacy

Exist to create

Each space dictates

The beauty known to unique eyes

And abstract visions of an unlimited world and mind

Designs and legends unimagined by others

Reviving remnants and things forgotten

Telling stories for posterity  

Reinventing possibilities

Scattering grains of light

Finding wonder in ideas

We might not otherwise take notice

Becoming legacy

February 2023

For a friend. Hoping that she recognizes herself in these words. A beautiful and kind person with a passion for the arts.

Erasing Fears

Graying memories intersect with

Darkened false images from recurring dreams

Extending worrisome reactions

Emphasizing aging fears

It's taken decades to erase

How truth became obscured

How sentiment turned.

2020

For two or three years, I had a series of dreams, in which a person from my youth was reacting towards me in a manner that never happened in real life. Pushing me away. Avoidance and sarcasm. I was very confused and rattled trying to identify where the dreams were coming from. The dreams finally ceased. (I hope.)

Your Name?

Dozens of hellos and I still don't know your name

And now, stifled by fear (or shame), terrified to ask

Acknowledgement in passing is not enough.