Frame of Reference

There are days 

when water feels like cream on your lips

& others when you have to try so hard

feeling only follows blood

or chipped tooth.

& it's not just a question of money

or love,

or ....how the light falls

as if those would be easy to accept an answer from 

even if they offered

but it's in the line & the cadence & depth of the gasp;

how much slack the strings take for themselves

before life takes it up

wrenching us back into orientation 

& dragging us deeper into memory

j.f.

2010

love to you all

j