Oklahoma Winds

I've observed
The Oklahoma winds
Heave up a car
And spin it
While stealing it
Away.

The clouds
Are spreading
Thickly
Every day,
The varied colorings
Inside the black,
My life removed,
Replaced
Again,

Again.

Your eyes
Were wet
Sapphires
Glistening
In melting
Snow.
Beside the 
Christmas trees,
I could taste
Your thick lipstick
Forever.

I grip
So little,
Letting hours,
Years,
Arise and
Leave

Behind
The locked
Transparent door
Of time.

I know
The breaking breeze
Will ever win
Its will.

That night
I curled
My fingers
Tightly over.

Every time
I see you still
Are taken,
Caught above
The murky sky.

- 5/22/25

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