10 Minutes

Sometimes
our lives must seem
like an old
romantic
comedy
my love...
Ten minutes
from you
to me
from me
to you
I cross third
as you cross seventh
and we never know
until
the next day
for sure
but you smell the cologne
in the air
where I passed;
or I
your perfume
and we know
once again
this monstrous gorgon named
Timing
struck out
at us
again....

Had I sat down on the bench
beside the fountain
to write this poem
today
we would have met
as I finished it,
your soft scent in the air
touching mine
and a hand on my arm
as I write
long hair brushing
my shoulders
and the pen, lost, the poemforgottenaswe



The Snow Rises