Your Only Love

 

A priest arrived by ambulance

to bless our sudden kiss

A doctor brought his bag but cannot

treat such things as this

My jewelry is just colored rocks

like pretty polished hollyhocks

in silver settings gone to curls

the same as any other girl's

but I could be your only love.

A flautist played our melody

in notes so fine and clear

That summer brought her midnights close

so that the moon could hear

the notes, the song so marvelous

the player played so long for us

the priest laid down his holy flask

the doctor blushed before he asked

if I could be your only love.

An urchin took a photograph

of you in uniform

You gave me spice and chocolates

to keep my fever warm

and lucky is the lucky bird

who calls and calls a wafting word

In this peculiar pregnant dawn

his curious and constant song

that I could be your only love.

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for Word Garden Word List--13 Rue Therese 

Music: Denise King Stuck On You

My Dog

"Let me in!"

My dog
has short stubby legs
and a ginormous barrel chest.
People laugh and say,
"He's put together wrong!"
He likes to dig,
play tugga,
and once,
he killed a skunk.

Evenings, while I watch tv,
he snoozes with a big doggy smile on his face.
If I stop rubbing his belly,
he opens an eye, lifts a paw and wants more.
I like to watch him sleeping
with his little legs
and barrel chest,
all the while marveling
at his little body in its Perfection. 
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For Day 9 of the April thang.

Calling All Angels

On a night when the moon went dark,
and I spilled unchecked from the broken glass of my life,
from my knees I whispered,
calling all angels
calling all angels
if you can hear me,
send me a sign.

In my hour of no hour left,
in the minutes when the indigo stars scorned my name,
from my knees I whispered,
calling all angels
calling all angels
in my extremity I called to them,
and the angels, in their mercy, came.
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for my Calling All Angels challenge at Real Toads. 

at the lowest point of my alcohol addiction, when I thought I was worth nothing, and that the future held nothing, I prayed. Every day since, that prayer has been answered, and I am astonished and humbly grateful.