5 Year Reunion - Desa

Another youthful plan gets dragged ashore

One more angel fails her pregnancy test

Diploma dangles amid grade school photos

Yearbook autographs are my only connection

The disappearing ink signatures are like fossils now

I’ve driven stories into the ground

Lost track of faces I swore I’d always remember

Childhood left without a sound

I stare at old drawings and things I’ve written down

And I think the disappearing ink sketches must be from another world

9 years ago I felt like I’d be young forever

Now phantom former loves have apartments with no address

This shapeless poem throws new shadows

As it stretches farther across my lined paper life

Another color fades from memory

One more dream gets tangled and threatens to drown

Kisses sparkle between cloudy weekdays we waste for a rent check

It’s checkmate for most kids.

We play by the rules but it’s

Someone else’s game.

How I miss the secret sounds.

A fluttering eyelash or a

Dance floor collision

Childhood left without a sound

Our eyes were stuck on angels as the plane went down in the distance

The search and rescue future still has much to figure out

If I knew then what I know now, I’d know this thought is over

Why waste time on time machines?

They don’t exist or make you younger