like love.

Like love.

I waited for you, like love

Pastel pink cheek bones

Fast beating heart

A songbird in my palm

I knew you would come soon

Clean shaven jaw

Strong collected hands

A nod under the most dissimilar bough    

We came together knowingly

Foggy woods opening to a

Sunlit lake of pattering blue

Trees leaning with the wind

And you

Leaning in to me

Pressing your heart to mine

Potent

Parallel

Forever.

midnight & often.

Things are scrambled now

Like a wild haunting fire

& burning ever the same

Nothing winds down while

Holding on so tightly

Flowers named Jenny

Look like us neath the moon

When we were twisted & bright

In black waters.

Let us sail this sea, no harboring.

ascending june.

I no longer wish to be your girl

There, I said it

So frisk-it as you may with her

& lie smartly under the stars like such a man

I am sure you will tell her those things

That you always said were just for me

& she will believe it all

Why wouldn’t she, you’re such a

Good-good boy.

Go on now.

Fish for things in rhythmic lakes

You always were fond of the sound

You do look sweeter neath the sun

When you turn your head to view something

You squint and smirk and say such marvelous twaddle

Oh! I love it all

Or, perhaps I did.

But now, I really, no longer do.

Flowers, pennies, stars, how are these plagues for the heart?