A bunch of old photos
I can smell the moments
And taste the thoughts
As you are on the tip
Of my tongue
Like a favorite wine
Complex and lingering
I open my eyes
and see your words
Moving in space before me
And feel that perfect rhyme
Glide across the page
Like waves across the sea
I hear the color of the rhythm
That shapes your words
Like twine rolled into a ball
As I pull on the loose ends
Richard L. Ratliff is a baby boomer, born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana. His Mid-West ties have built the foundation and setting for his poetry. He is a Purdue University graduate, with two years of engineering that turned into a degree in English Literature, along with being a two-year letterman in wrestling. All of these eclectic combinations have given him a career as a boiler and combustion expert and poet.
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