Archive for October, 2009

Maple Pirouette

I’ll keep running where the angels fear to tread
When the blood red children of the maple pirouette.

Minneapolis is beautiful in autumn.
The park looks like a kaleidoscope.

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Origami Sunset

Misunderstood
Lost the footing and we fell hard
That’s when the fireflies died in the bell jar
I used to pray that they would be awake in June
When that origami sunset folds to a paper moon
The skyline blushes when it breaks dawn
The highway stretches and the interstate yawns
But, I never sleep when the give and take’s gone
When it’s freezing in the place that we used to wake on
I was too ambitious and too damn timid
Too thrilled that the glass was half-filled
To wonder what was in it
But you’re a cynic when the magic still exists
Till you stifle all the wind that sends the daffodils adrift
That’s the reason that the kite fell flat, love
But if we wanted, it could sail right back up
Just hold that tether tight when the black winds blow
And promise me that you’ll chase it
If you let the string go

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