-Kim

-Hannah

uncertainty has these days
dimmed any color, any light
more than fear, more than anger
uncertainty settled over
deep sadness
preparing to mourn

-Kim

-Hannah

-Hannah

partial family portrait

-Kim

-Kim

-Hannah

some tea settles my stomach
the river breeze stumbles through the ship belly
i stare at silver streaks of light
reflections of a landscape
i can't see but i know it surrounds me

-Kim

-Hannah

a mapped-out surface
green-eyed blue struggle smile
arms circle goodbye

-Kim

-Hannah

the dog days of summer
pant
crawl
belly-down on
parched, sandy dirt

the yellow-green of trees
too bright, threatening
a cloudless sky
drowns us

empty morning streets
as though this city were
a small, sleepy town
all at church on Sunday

-Kim

Heat Wave 

-Hannah

haiku for a hard week

not happy tired
just some good old-fashioned
flat-out exhaustion

-Kim

'It doesn't look like much but it's going to be something.'

-Hannah

-Hannah

turning circles

belly-down flat

damed-up river

pure azure into teal

silver leaves shudder

thunder grumbles

a memory once lost

the gift of a stranger

-Kim

-Kim

-Hannah

a simple meal:

three small ingredients taste of

weightless cold stars
dripping into a sea
slippery and cold as an eel

warm breath condensing on slick, tempered glass

nothing but cold moonlight
illuminating the room
white sheets float

-Kim

-Hannah

-Kim

-Hannah

dove grey
suffused light
seeps through
a window
facing
a brick wall
faint sound
on the ledge
two doves coo

-Kim

-Hannah

-Kim

-Hannah

-Hannah

-Kim

it happened so fast
the speed of recognition
black asphalt shimmers

-Kim

-Hannah

-Kim

-Hannah

-Hannah

-Kim

30.
jags of rain like small bursts of anger
a red balloon self-consciously jerked
looking into the gray, to only see its varying shades
i wondered
had she ever looked up into the sun's impossible white
so strong it burned through closed eyes?
had she ever had animal silence
so still it transformed her into amber?

-Kim

-Hannah

Maine -Hannah

For Wallace (cont.) by Kim

For Wallace by Kim

-Hannah

Yuri59 -Kim

Florida -Hannah

solitary

-Kim

-Hannah

loitering
aimless wanderings

ambling on
floating
unaware

not willingness
not choice
surviving only to exist

this life
does't even consider us

-Kim

them bones, flower dress
cross talk at the table
slow drive, homesteading


-Hannah

it could be diff'rent 

achieving a balance

word's so meaningless

-Kim

-Hannah