Savor

I savor
this feeling
the anticipation
excitement
desire
of you
to arrive
the imagining
of our time
our world
our space
our smell
our air
us
i savor
this feeling
of knowing
its coming
us
and my chest
flutters
and warms
and my
mouth stretches

Sometimes after a big meeting
when people have
critically reviewed
the project
that is my baby
and I had to defend
failures
I feel very tired
and empty after.

Revolutionary Road

Was intense, but went too extreme, so that it was hard to relate to...which is the good news I suppose, that we women don't live in the 50s anymore...

don't wait
for tomorrow to
get started on your life
but don't rush
something that
ain't ready

life

And then life was long.
A 97 year old woman
smiles in bed
next to her best friend
the one shes known
for 82 years.
Life is long
and short?

it was time

and suddenly time
was short
and thirty years
was too long
not to have
gotten what I wanted
it was time to move
incubation was over
excuses were spent
it was time to move
too many things were
far away
that needed to come close
I had to make it happen

Blanket they use in X-rays

The sadness
Came over me
Like a
Metal blanket