Poem Category: the distance

the distance
my Zodiac shines
out of trillions

the distance
lightning cracks
into darkness

youth to man
the distance
in a raspberry’s taste

in grandma’s diary
the distance
they drove on to elope

Italian sunshine
the distance
in Pompeii’s streets

still birth
the distance
a mother grieves

grandma’s winter
the distance
her hands hold pain

parrot shrieks
the distance
their calls carry

origami class
the distance
our quietness enfolds

the distance
rains murmur
for the sea, for the sea