Everyday Balloons

Your umbrella, is fighting hard against the strong gale, Blowing off of the Atlantic, shuddering around your brown hair. It's courageous, when it's spokes start bending, trying not to go inside out, trying just to do it's duty, to keep your hair dry

No matter when I wake up, the day always has the same length I try to wake with the dawn, but still the dark comes just as fast and the small birds make cute shadows on the white water?, and the brick wall, and the wood shed. It smells like a gym whe

No big hope. No big pain. No big club, that's clobbering your name. 'Cos the world, is the same. No big deal. No great shame. What gets off, will even out again. And the joy, will remain. No more looks at them girls. Are you glad that you went back t

After the raining, the shadow of brightness. Under the cedar, where it's still dry. I can't talk about small things when there's something so big. I won't lean in to listen when I see you with him. Pine needles on the ground are like clothing, hastil

It takes a midnight to get to a morning. It takes time to put, ducks in a row. Too many blankets and too many dogs, kick off the covers, uncover your arms. Hold it to my ear like a phone. When the spring will believe in this leaving. And the leaves w