Pandemo

“Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be.”
― Stephanie Laurens, A Rogue's Proposal

“Pocket Poem"

If this comes creased and creased again and soiled
as if I’d opened it a thousand times
to see if what I’d written here was right,
it’s all because I looked too long for you
to put in your pocket. Midnight says
the little gifts of loneliness come wrapped
by nervous fingers. What I wanted this
to say was that I want to be so close
that when you find it, it is warm from me.”
― Ted Kooser, Valentines

“His hands fluttered like birds,
each with a fancy silk ribbon
to weave into their nest,
as he stood at the mirror
dressing for work, waving hello
to himself with both hands.”
― Ted Kooser, Delights and Shadows

“She'd had little patience with darkness, and her heart
held only a measure of shadow. I touched
the warm dust of those colors, her tools,
and left there with light on the tips of my fingers.”
― Ted Kooser, Delights and Shadows