John Daniel Thieme

. . .though the names of lovers are forgotten in time, their nameswritten across the sky as ogham threads are tracedbetween the stars

beneath the stars that drift; she sighed and said "Every tale of a love can only be a tale of ghosts that linger in these spaces wecan never hold,"__s the wind gave echo

I wish to go down under the waters__he cool, crystalline waters that I knew, where allthat is, here, existing, isis only to be lost within the susurrationsand the rumours of water and the evening starwe wait for...

. . .in your light, had I learned to love, here in your beauty, could I speakknowing of this space close withinas the breath held inside a garden rose, there_ there is no time.

. . .our whispered words, faintly in the darkness, dissolvingwithin the trees__hen, fleeting words of consolationwould not suffice if feigned, and flippant wordsconfessed reluctance__ur wordswere meaningless uttered on the wind. . .

we lived depravityand called it truth, silencingour dreaming, andour love, discardingthings holy.

To forget would mean the things we never knew had never waited to be known, never waitedto be forgotten, had never been; waitingbeneath the long dead starsin time. . .

. . . Thisis not the same river at my fingertips. There are no paths, no sunken roadsfamiliar in the forest, by which we canretrace our steps, by which we can escapeby which we can reclaim and return, or hear the child__ song running in the timothy . . .

. . .the sorrows of the heart yearn to be erased, for one final atonementfinite and forgetting and whole__ut time in its preservingwill not permit forgetting; destroyingonly when we can no longer begor argue with time to preserve the brief benisonsa few moments longer than our sins