(2013)
In Loving Memory James F. Logue
All that I know how to do is write about death without dying and write about life
There seems to be a drought in my… but who knows if it is the cause or the result of the war raging within me
I get my silence in five minute doses before the plane overhead brings me back to earth
I’ll keep searching for the meaning of life and I hope I find it as crumpled paper nearish a trash can
Hope in another form but no fewer letters and I’ve been hoping for these past eight years so I’ll just keep on
I have whispered your name into the air so many times it has become the breeze that blows
Just when I get back on my feet you pass on by and I lose my footing Again
I’ve kept my eyes closed most of these past eighteen years because I find it just as dark
I don’t remember any anesthesia after talking with you but I woke up stitched back
It must be a wednesday or a friday or any day at all for I am painfully aware of the wo… that consumes me
I know that you were there in my dreams and in my arms Every dream we
Loving you was never sweet like the taste of vanilla the way I thought it was supposed to be It was more like
Autumn sneaks in preceding dormancy Leaves take on new beauty with nothing left in them but a fa… Individually insignificant
The road is long and winding like nothing you can imagine Too many off ramps to count but too few in hindsight
There is poetry in nature better left to be spoken wordlessly by the breeze