Though You’re Not Yet Here

By R. Bremner

Though you’re not yet here,

my thoughts are not of

anticipation of you, but

rather of the quiet aftertaste

of your kisses, and

the cool electricity that

lingers when you leave.

R. Bremner has worked as a taxi driver, a security guard, a UPS truck unloader, and a 40-year computer programmer at Pan American World Airways, Continental Airlines, Amtrak, and Citibank.
A four-time honoree in the Allen Ginsberg Awards, Ron has written of incense, peppermints, and the color of time since the 1960s, in nine books/chapbooks, and journals/anthologies including International Poetry Review, Paterson Literary Review, The Journal of Formal Poetry, Brownstone Poets Annual, 18 jazz poems in Jerry Jazz Musician, Red Wheelbarrow, and Climate of Opinion: Sigmund Freud in Poetry.