By Michael H Brownstein
PROMPT—I am grateful for ...
When I first saw you,
you felt like a breeze
on a hot summer's day
and I knew I had to stay
in your way--you had
perfect teeth, a blemish
in your eye, a scar at your neck--
I never knew why.
It's been quite awhile,
but you still make me smile,
and I love our walks in the park,
down the alleyways,
into the deepest woods.
It's you who gives me time to think,
meditate, exercise, levitate--
and to this day, I still don't know
how the scar at your neck
came to be a part of who we are.
Michael H. Brownstein's latest volumes of poetry, A Slipknot to Somewhere Else: A Poet's Journey To The Borderlands Of Dementia (2018) and How Do We Create Love (2019) were both published by Cholla Needles Press. He writes from Jefferson City, MO.