• may i soften like a candle left on a warm window sill
    may i be formed to my true shape
    may i know all of my light and all of my dark
    and may i marry them beneath a flowered arbor
    buzzing with bees and the promise of all my dreams
    waking up to meet me 
    face-to-face
    
    -rjm
  • The parts of me that long to grow into spring
    Are hiding fallow now, safe beneath dead leaves
    I am a wisp behind a tree
    A slip, here and not
    Cobwebs for veins
    Dotted with dew, silver filament
    The bark bites until spring
    
    -rjm