THE SOMETIMES BALLAD FOR TOLONG VIEJO

 

O

The cautious

Sweetness

 

 

As in all

First

Times that do not

Come

Too sudden to bewilder

 

That comes

Into lucency

 Glimmered

From subaquaeous

Light

As in most

Beginnings

 

Through

 Tangled jasmine & bon- Fire smoke

 

& limbs of Affection

 

& tendrils

Tucked

In the corner

Of a picture garden in

A nook of the mind

 

To the clear

Resolution

Of most ends

 

Of sky

Beyond this sky

 

Which is why

Less chaste

But more contrite

 I rush

Farther away each time

To be with you

 

Poet  Bobby Flores Villasis