Pages   stacked   on   top   of   newspaper-thin pages of love's story   The stack, a phonebook impossible to tear   each layer of truth, each highlighted moment thin and breezy   Slim and easy   Strong   Sideways they're baleen plates   snagging bits of barnacled goodness   The day's school of life… fish?   The tidbits of krill and shrimp   Alight on my tongue   feed a soul as large as the ocean itself   with confectioner's delights   loving soundbites   grainy sweet words   whispered, wrapped in pink paper   vibrate the waters of my inner ear   Inseparablefromthe            drops      oftheocean
I ski, teach, parent, write, read, swim, adventure. I get lost in my own mind, chewing on words and images. Sometimes something good comes out.