Inspired by episode 15 of Twin Peaks: The Return…

1
It’s twenty-five years later
and at last
Big Ed and Norma
have their chance
after years
of putting happiness aside
in order
to do the right thing

Lines
and wrinkles
and shades of grey
mark every one
of those years of waiting
in their own
unique
permanent ink

2
The parallels are striking
down to the single cup of coffee

Now I’m just looking for the hand on my shoulder

3
Is the place they found her waiting
the same place you’ll find me?

Will you hold me closer as I shiver
here by the trunk of the moss-covered tree

before I crawl, screaming, for the door?

(20 August 2017)