It seems to me she said with glee that you and I were meant to be
I said to her you are a hack and there’s no way you want me back
And there we sat just like that
And it felt quite wrong and it felt quite slack
But I turned to leave and I didn’t look back

Secure a saddle onto Venus
Gallop towards the brilliance of the moon

Love in its absence
Is its origin

Your feet are never far from me
I keep your footprints gathered in one tile

Heat behind my eyes
Pulse in my lips
Tacky flesh of my chest

Falling twisting bleating
White goat kid cries
On its back

YOUNG RICH STALLION
REARS HIS FORE-BODY
IN CONGRUENCE WITH NEW WEALTH

****
FALSE ALARM
WHERE Y’ALL HEADED
SHE GOT HER OUTING PANTS ON
SATURDAY DENIM DARLING

Silky black cows in a fence to my left
and

Old Ruth on the lake
High on a hill
Plum tree pregnant
And ready to spill

Suddenly
Cicadas calling
Out of the blue

Crack and crumble
My bones fall through
Collapse and I am new

I’m getting a breeze now, reading outside
BUT
a mosquito bite
Only one, thankfully
To the inner left knee


And back of the right calf
Two

More often than not
And never in two places at once
For everything I have,
I’ve won
And everything I’ve lost,
I’ve sold

I love you
As I love you
As I love you
As I love you
Always
And all of the time
That I do
And that I don’t,
Too

Then the streetlight went out
It was finally dark in my room
And I knew it was you and your slingshot

You are two people
And I only love one
So what do I do
When I can’t have you
Without you?

“You don’t have to leave”
Yeah, well,
I’ve already started the car

How to Purposefully Get in Your Own Way — Unintentionally:

Good morning, You
A person of interest in the crimes against my heart

I guess, she said
That it doesn’t matter
But I don’t mind repeating myself
I hope you enjoy your sack lunch
That I packed myself with lots of love
Pistachios, for the envy I feel that you go out into the world to be enjoyed by hearts other than mine