Love in its absence
Is its origin

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

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

How to Purposefully Get in Your Own Way — Unintentionally:

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

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

Suddenly
Cicadas calling
Out of the blue

Silky black cows in a fence to my left
and

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

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

Falling twisting bleating
White goat kid cries
On its back

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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