Take Root

standing in the rain
delicious drip drip
down our necks
this togetherness a
life feet planted
in dark earth
delicious drip drip
on your lips

Surrender

surrounded by words
hemmed in trapped
raise your hands
do what you're told
succumb to strange
temptation of fruit
touch taste and see

Surfaces

people slide apart
ice floes drift
frozen breath hangs
from silent trees
and deep inside
winter wastes away