Baggage Claim
I go to baggage claim a few days early
To wait for you
I check the message board
But your day of arrival
Is not yet listed
Although your flight number appears
So I practice
My song of meeting and greeting.
A vast array of old
And sculpted
Infantile and exhausted
Gather at the carousel
To listen to the music
And watch the spinning containers
In all their many mesmerizing shapes and colors.
People reunite with their belongings
Loved ones come to greet them
Anxiety is resolved
Hope and trust renewed
I witness this
Strangers lifting stranger’s luggage
Faces scanned
In the hopes of recognition
And look for you
But no one is as beautiful
And no one runs to greet me
So I study well how it is done
What happens to the eyes
When luggage or a loved one is recognized
The use of the hands
In waving and greeting
In pointing and grasping
How lips part and join
The sight of folks leaving together
A sense of mission accomplished
And lives to be lived
Good things happen at baggage claim
I have witnessed this
And in that joy
I await you.
Poetry
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- A Poem is Born
- After The News
- Alan
- Alan Is Dead
- American Wedding, 2011
- Ask the Sphinx – 2 approaches
- Baggage Claim
- Beach Plum Jam
- Beau Dies
- between spiders
- Burnt Wood – for Bubi
- Call it what it is
- Conversation With A Ladle
- Coyote in the House
- Crow’s Song
- Day break
- Death Factories
- Death of the Dolphin
- Furry Bug
- Gospel of the Redwood
- Insects in Amber
- It: In Honor of Dr. Seuss
- Journey to Standing Rock
- Kevin Garnett in Africa
- Life among the barbarians
- Long ago, perhaps yesterday
- Mandalay Hills
- Mesquite Dunes
- Miles’ Ashes
- Miles’ Journey
- My First Yoga Teacher
- One Drop of Rain
- Salton Sea
- Self Love
- Sunrise
- The Love Life of Clams
- Throwing Away
- Uncle Sol
- What The Stones Say
- when spring arrives ice flows out of the bay
- Whispering Among The Gods
- Willow
- Winter Fog
- Work and Love are What Really Matter: a reunion poem for the BHS class of 1958 reunion
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