Until

Until
things change
and life rearranges
itself I wait.
The drag of the day becomes lighter,
swifter to find what was gone from me,
swifter to draw close to eternity
and the one thing he asks of me,
until things change.
They change now.
The vines that entangle the wooden fence
bare begin to bloom.
The violets creep between the steps
of the garden sweet.
My heart is stolen from you
by the song of a bird that
flew close enough
for me to know
the change.

******

its raining
pear
blossoms

that one sparrow
on the stoplight
rain