Love

Take Outs  and Bloopers

Aluminum palm tress stand rigid as dress soldiers

On parade at a Montana truck stop,

Lincoln’s chiseled face, rock solid like his virtue,

A frantic mountain goat runs in maternal search

For its lost young separated by a tourist walkway,

We all stop to take pictures under Washington’s stern gaze.

Sway to sexy soothing saxophone serenade

 like feeding butterflies sucking on orange nectar,

Women’s high heeled shoes arrayed symmetrically in a

Madrid store front window,

The stone Buddha smiles knowingly and eternally,

A thousand Harleys angle park in small town America,

Ripened citrus in a Seville royal garden scents the air

And seduces the senses.

Christopher Columbus rests in state.

He discovered the New World.

While you my love, necklace adorned lie naked

Next to my soul.  We discovered it all.

Everything else is either take out or blooper.