I Know I will Meet You in Another Place

The pain is here While you are not The wind echoes in the empty places While the coyote laughs Dancing in the moonlight At my lack of understanding I know that one day we will meet again Where the snow is crisp The winds don’t chill Where the sunshine warms Not beats...

SEA OF FACES

See us! We are not just pictures Pieces of a tableau Or parts of a mosaic To make you weep We lived and breathed Held children in our arms Hugged family before we left And many only have that memory Think only of us as we were Not this two dimensional nothingness That...

TRAVELLER RETURNS

You were brought home On the wings of a metal angel To your body’s final resting place No fanfares marked your return Only the booming pain in our hearts That you were no longer ours God had taken you to join His celestial forces Our countries flag draped you As my...

Night Raids

The whining rise awakens us from dreams of better times Zombies in RAF uniforms follow the dimming light to outside Where the dark leviathans of the empirical kingdom lie in wait Their charioteers take their seat and gee up their horses While engineering creatures run...