Gravity

4/2/2014


One star hangs on to night
 as the sharp blue of
 dawn
emerges over Annadel,
 her light stretches out to
 me
on this sharply cold, March morning
 and I
catch the sight of
 her
in the sky southwest,
my hood up,
coffee cup in hand
 and feel the uplift of my
amazement of her
 tenacity
and the pull of gravity
 tether me to all
I dreamt my life would come
 to hold
still flickering in my heart
 yet
held hostage by
 the thin atmosphere of
living
 here on earth.