Thank You for Dreaming (for the incomparable mystery writer, Lynne Murray)
Frannie Z
Your dreams cross the Bay
over the bridge
and yield magic.
I thank you yet again
for Sir John Falstaff,
sexy fat vampire.
Your San Francisco
never stops loving you
as you write her.
How many hills
do dreams cross?
Seven, you’d say.
Your fogs hide,
yet menace.
The past stokes the present,
and vice versa.
You never stop loving
San Francisco
As she writes you.
When I visit,
perhaps I will wear flowers.