I taste the air of times past
as she walks and I ride
toward the tar covered trail
lined of birch and pine.
A distant hum echoes
softly in the breeze….
Poetry by River Maria Urke
Beneath the numbness a tingling comes and goes announcing life and death pain and loss in a world blinded by difference and run by fear the everyday is flavored a mundane mix of denial another moment gone another kiss missed 1000 steps behind my yesterday’s lover tempted by temptations wrung through blades of glass today…