My debut collection of poems,
Memories of When We Were Birds,
will be published in 2012.

Perchance to Dream

To fly beyond the horizon
is a young man’s dream,
a memory of when we were birds
and soared on silver sunlight.

Now I fly through night
a shadow, disembodied
but in the shape of a man
with fingers spread to the wind.

There are days I wish
I could be that wind, stirring
heart-shaped aspen leaves
or skimming the skin of cool waters,

or else be the leaf
for one glorious summer
and feel the soft touch of sunlight
and the slow sad fading to gold.