Published 2006 by Coffee Press Journal, copyright, J. Donald Coonrod.

Your message filed on the Internet
is noted for sure,
but I know the spiteful you;
you’re a matter altogether neglected.

I accept your profligate ways,
but must add I love you
like the cold willful ocean
that washes my feet but could
just as easily engulf me.

Still,you’re in my thoughts a lot,
a gleam of light in a wet drop
on a flower threatened by winter;
let’s embrace and each love
part of each other again.