A love song for the skinny guy in the ugly apartment building across the street

Biking home with

A takeout tray balanced in one hand

Bearing

Two cups from Orange Julius

All the way from downtown.

Two cups

Arm up

All the way home. 

Looks graceful

Looks delicious

Looks exactly like

Love.

A Love Song for September

We drove for fifteen minutes

Through a wonderland of colour

Trees in brilliant gold, orange, scarlet, purple

And we didn't notice a thing.

But when one saucy tree 

Shook her leaves in the sunlight as we rounded the bend

Suddenly we saw them everywhere

Arresting, captivating, beautiful. 

Every bend in the road led to yet more delight 

Every field, ringed with magic

The children clapped their hands

And gasped look! Look!

So much beauty,

Hidden in plain sight. 

Not just autumn.

And not just trees.

In you, too.