Her Idiosyncrasies, Chivalric Code, & Inoculate the Moment, by R. Gerry Fabian

Her Idiosyncrasies

She has a crooked smile
that reveals only her 
pure white front teeth.
She furrows her brows
when she needs a huge hug.
She always kisses to the left
so I can see 
her deep dark blue eyes.
Each evening, around ten o’clock pm,
she changes into her night gown.
It is always folded on the bed chair
when I come to bed.
She is a three-pillow woman
with the teddy bear 
I won at the fair
on the middle pillow.
If the bear is not there,
a whole new set of parameters
open for ephemeral exploration.

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Chivalric Code

I take my right index finger
and scrumble your makeup
where tears have dug 
painted riverbeds across your 
puffy sallow cheeks.
I can do nothing
for your 
swollen crabapple eyes.
I push long damp strands
of chestnut hair
back over your ears
and wonder what
your name is.

​Inoculate The Moment

Time moves beyond
and becomes memory.
Memory becomes action.
When pedestrian,
it
washes hands,
creates earworm melodies,
scents the aroma of coffee,
announces the crying
and
combines colors.

In rare moments
when minutes slow
and invite fate,
it is then
that the special serum
is injected
into the heart
of otherwise
gray matter

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R. Gerry Fabian is a retired English instructor. As a poet and novelist, he has been publishing his writing since 1972 in various literary magazines. He has published four books of his published poems, Parallels, Coming Out Of The Atlantic, Electronic Forecasts. and Ball On The Mound. In addition, he has published three novels. They are Getting Lucky (The Story), Memphis Masquerade, and Seventh Sense.  All these books are available both as ebooks and paperbacks at all publishers including Amazon, Apple Books and Barnes and Noble. His web page is https://rgerryfabian.wordpress.com, Twitter @GerryFabian2. He lives in Doylestown, PA.