Morality, Mortality

I think I'd tell my kids that if they didn't clean their plates at suppertime
the ghosts of the foods they didn't eat would haunt them at night when they were in bed.

Vows

Do you promise to love honor and cherish one another
as long as you both shall live?
No takesies backsies?!

Faith and security

God doesn't close a door without opening a window,
but what about the security bars on the window?
Who takes care of that?

General Stresses

I can't sleep at night when I think of all the Bills piling up.
Have their families noticed?
Where will I bury the next one?

Prodigal Sun

It looked like we'd have to start over.
Huddled under the trees in the cold darkness of night
the rain seemed to say
"Where's your internet now?"

Going Steady

I wake just before dawn
and gaze upon your dear sleeping face,
struggling to keep the binoculars still.

Fairy Tales can come true. It can happen to you.

I guess the story was a lot like Cinderella.
Except the Fairy Godmother was Tequilla.
The glass slipper, herpes.

Sonar

Every morning your alarm will sound
and I will clutch your hips and throw romantic notions around the room
until desire outweighs our debts.

Getting off work

Exiting the rain
I shed my clothes on the walk to our bedroom
where your bared flesh
is a story waiting to unfold

"Got your nose" and other confusions

Peekaboo
serves as an early lesson that just because you don't see something doesn't mean it's not there.

Later we're sure there are monsters in the closet
as parents proclaim while turning on the light "I don't see anything".

Then there's the little matter of
the wind
Santa clause
and God.

Value and drive

If pancakes were outlawed,
what would happen?
People having secret pancake breakfasts in the woods?
Looking for the perfect spot
amidst the trees with buckets nailed to them.