must know God

God in the dentist chair
Spitting out that god-awful
Pardon me, awful
Topical anaesthetic
That’s the typhoon
The hurricane

God with a sore throat
Hacking and thundering
Gargling with
Salt water
That’s the tropical
Waterspout

God drawing lines
In the sand
At the beach
Impressing the goddess
That’s the border
Of washed up kelp

God being cool
Stepping out
Incognito to the store
Unknown identity
That’s the eclipse
Covering up the burning eyes

God with a brush
Painting
Cheering up the room
That’s the rainbow
The sunrise
The sunset

God in a funk
Pissed about something
An injustice perhaps
That’s the earthquake
The occasional comet
Thrown across the room

God being God
Sitting in his house
Rocking by the fire
Eating popcorn
That’s the cornfield
By the forest on fire

God wondering
Playing
Weeping
Tinkering
Loving
God

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Reduced by One

As two, we slept
Peacefully

In long deep sighs
We spoke

In bursts of laughter
And tears

We built our lives
Together

We sang and hummed -
Silly tunes

Your skin and mine
Bound tight against each other

Your soul hiding in your eyes
Begging to be found

My soul begging to be lost
In yours

Ourselves colliding in kaleidoscopic
Bursts of color and pattern

As the tendrils of the ivy vine
Wind around the tree

So your legs encircled mine
And held me - surrendered

In sweet morning light
Our breath the sound of love

Now laughter haunts the empty room
Ourselves reduced by one

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Copyright 2007 by E. Bond Francisco