There are ways…

to make of the moment

a topiary
so the pleasure’s in

walking through.

“Flirtation” – Rita Dove

entering light

If I could
hold light
in my hand

I would
give it
to you

and watch it
become
your shadow.

                                                “Present Light” – Charles Ghigna

leaving there too soon

Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons,
You can’t be twenty on Sugar Mountain
Though you’re thinking that
You’re leaving there too soon,
You’re leaving there too soon

“Sugar Mountain” – Neil Young

I have a purple dragon…

…with
A long brass tail that clangs,
And anyone not nice to me
Soon feels his fiery fangs.

So if you tell me I’m a dope
Or call my muscles jelly,
You just might dwell a million years
Inside his boiling belly.

“My Dragon” by X.J. Kennedy