In Place

let’s go somewhere today

we could bring dark wine, exotic olives, 

a blanket

it will be a place we can dream 

while living here on earth

lushness that exists in its own right

immersed in fading pink sky 

bring your hat

I’ll bring my book

they will protect us from the noise 

and burning sun

 

we each name our bravest secret

while prisms of light scatter

side by side, separate 

somewhere