New Mexico Closure

I looked for you

hunting and and and

then you were there

and everywhere

Painting portraits is easier

when I am topless and fleshy

What was once work became my own

personal nourishment

because I knew how

to create with out grasping

and hold with out taking

anything

too personally

to love with out trying to change

my self

When I said good bye to the mountains

whose vastness created space

for all the dimensions of me

you slowly appeared

in the horizon

offering

a new

home