Kurt Philip Behm

The Blemish Of Time (+1)

You can’t wash the pigment

of the past away

Its stain much deeper

than all regret

 

Coloring lost moments

with what you hide

Painting the future

— from palettes of broken dreams

 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024)

 

 

Remembering Mira

 

Up your seconds

stretch every moment

Joy in the instant

— present sublime

 

(Harry’s Café: Rush Street, Chicago – Circa 1982)