22nd Anniversary

22nd Anniversary

You claimed they ate carrots
And I said no the word impossible
In my mind big as a saddle.

City met country as I followed
You from the garden your hands
Orange and green to the wet corral.

Some you gave to me and the fence
Creaked as the warm lips threatened
To pull me to the muddy earth.

I was twelve and you ten that summer
Darling you are the best thing about me
For as many years combined now.

© Ciprianowords Inc. 2008

Watching A Boat

Watching A Boat

Upon this pier
the boat becomes
a mirror of emotion.
You are the breeze
trapped in its sails
I, the windless ocean.

And like this vessel
tethered here
yet longing to be driven,
You long to be released
and freed
I long to be forgiven.

Look, these thoughts
lie heaped upon
a heart’s undying embers.
You are forever
Unforgotten
I, one who remembers.

© Ciprianowords Inc. 2008

Reindeer

Reindeer

It is appropriate that the name is unchanged
whether singular or plural.
For tonight I saw one,
seeming to bow for all things living
toward the grass.

The Northern Lights and the stars
were together less majestic than the single breath
huffed, as the branch beneath my foot
sent all things living, echoing
over the ridge.

© Ciprianowords Inc. 2008