Ruby Slippers

I can travel anywhere

in my poetry**

Even and especially places

I can’t reach with my feet

Like the past or the future

Like ruby slippers,

I click three times with my Words

And Invite you to hop

on the magic carpet woven

with rhymes & patterns of prose

And take a trip with me

Anywhere, no matter

your dreams or mine

I’ll go anywhere with you

Yet on some days

I still want to run….

Run!👣run!👣run!👣 towards

something

Something I have yet to dream,

a longing

A longing I can’t explain,

Other than i feel the magnetism

of a direction

of a trajectory toward

Toward space-time paths,

Toward successions of actions,

Toward past-future arcs

Toward…

Rather than away

from my beloved life🌀

**in honor of commencing my poetry as prayer pilgrimage 2024

Dolomites, Italy