Adding Up to One (bilingual)

Midlife Regrets

The books I never read
The words I never said

IT’S HIM

When I close my eyes

I see a face

When A Stone Hits The Water

What was once a clear sense of purpose and direction

SAUDADE* – LOVE NEVER AGES

*Saudade (Portuguese): The feeling of longing for someone that you love and is lost.
Also described as a “vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist.”

Anecdoche* – A Story about Saturday Nights

Duuuude! Babes!
Muah, muah!
How you doin’?

AFTERGLOW

A week since.

The memory of the smile reappears
into the foreground.

The kohl-rimmed eyes, that hair let loose,
they come back.

THE PHONE NEVER RANG

The day you grazed your knee at school.
Your nurse told me.
You never called.

The day you missed the bus on your way home.
Your teacher told me.
You never called.

Ticking, Traumatized

A hand reaches down.
And picks them up, gingerly, gently, with care.
A fractured fragment.
A shattered shard.
Brittle, broken, ruptured remnants.
Places them in order.

IN THE COMPANY OF…

On the chosen path

I walk alone

Except for Him above

And angels for company