Metronome Conjoined

1

anniversary

of your birth and death, days that

rise at dawn, now joined

2

hold your profile now

serenely accustomed to

being viewed always

3

good medicine is

egret caught at the pond’s edge

stuck in infamy

4

your burgundy truth

flows from bottle to open

throat, still waiting solo

5

back porch watches as

sun sets between forlorn dreams

a life unlived

6

he sang too many songs

graduated from time to not

quite treasure, his

7

on a mission, her

miniature-self found a

harp made of sorrow

8

she walks with wallet

clutched sadness, her hollow

accessory truth

9

slumming, she is bent

finding rocks underneath

forgotten history

10

high class fur seeks new

owner to polish and love

refuted sorrow

11

brief, that life of one

who loves to live like daughter

wishes for her mama

12

provocatively

his colorful guitar strums

shade her, unknowingly

13

a musicians

life is worth a thousand

glittered dream beats

14

far, Oklahoma

smudges distance like a dream

onward to Ohio