He’d found a pic of a WWI
soldier who looks just like him.
It explains a lot, he says.
Why he dreams of helicopters.
Always felt old. And that was only
our first year of college.
At the time, reincarnation,
just as a concept,
was enough to change us.
Love is the direct opposite of anger.
Trying to locate a rainbow,
you are only disrupting
particles of light.
Sit and feel the fly
move on your skin.
She mows her lawn reluctantly,
by hand, lets the wildflowers
grow. Despite her neighbors.
The flowers attract a stranger,
like a butterfly or a bee
to her front door. She opens it
and learns a story.
