We’re a matched set

Our love grows green through the winters of life

Touch me

Touch me

I finally saw you

…………………and I loved you

I need

……………….. …

You…Rock!

When first we pledged

W hen first we

began to dare to

dream…of

going through life

together…

the time

to be reprogrammed

to perform to our tides,

ebb and neap…together.

The words we used and spoke when first we began to speak to each

other-your smile

Your relief worth … everything…

1) Like an inner wave

Breaking on an inner shore I crest

and break and come to know the

Divine. Myself…1) Like an inner

wave breaking on an inner shore I

crest and break and come to know

the Divine. Myself…

In the clear glass mirror surface

of the pond…I am reflected in all of my life in all of my

deaths in all of my appetites and refusals-in all of my

hopes and disappearing-s…I am reflected in my multi-

colored Garb of the Divine . Myself. My God…

I long to flow with knowledge-

breaking through the walls-

with my tiny persistent rootlets-

like the pine tree growing bent over-

in a heavy wind-

on top of the mountain-

breaks through the boulders-

imprisoning its feet-

to grow inward-bigger and bigger-

And if you endure-

For you must endure great pain-And surely have

borne great pain-In order to bear witness to How fully

you have lived-Your stone bridges that pass- Searchers

and travelers-Your stone houses that

Shelter-the poor in spirit and the great-

Your stone sentences and periods-Will bear witness-

Will bear witness-

To what can be endured and transformed.