She collects lovers
like wild berries,
not even realizing
that they’re
poisonous

your name is
forbidden in
my mouth
or in my heart
because when
i think about
you;

i'll cry a little more,
hurt a little stronger
love a little softer
because you no longer
make me feel sober

i'm drunk on the
memory of you

i bathe in serene
sleepy mountainside ledges
kissed by lips of fall