there’s always this moment,laying in bedseventy-five percent awake and twenty-five percentstuck in dream,where you are starting to realizeyou are alive–you have a name and a faceand a family,and this is a particularday of the weekin which you have a specific list ofthings to do.It only takes a split-secondfor all this informationto come flooding backinto the brainthat has…
Tag: love poem
The Daily Turn #20: I Have Tried So Many Times To Memorize Your Face
I have triedso many timesto memorize your face.But loving you, I have learnedthat in one facethere are a thousand faces–Revealed,one by one,by light and shadow,the changing colorsof a thousand days.The impressions of joyand sorrow are markedby lines that lift and pull.There is the nuance of eyebrowand the deepening groovesof a lifetime of questionsanswered and unanswered.There is passion…