The moon is a curving flower of gold,
The sky is still and blue;
The moon was made for the sky to hold,
And I for you;
The moon is a flower without a stem,
The sky is luminous;
Eternity was made for them,
To-night for us.

You told me you're a coward.
I hope you're never
brave enough to follow through.

You told me, once
when you died you wanted to be eaten
by a bear:
something used up and on the verge
of starving; something that would
feed on your for days,
savor your marrow.
Being a predator is terrifying.
You said, you are constantly
aware of death.
As if that made you brave.

I want to be eaten by something
more beautiful:
a snow leopard or a tree.
Dig deep roots into my hollow spaces
turn my blood to branches
so I can keep growing, growing
until I'm all
acorn bones and blue skies.
But maybe that's just me
being scared of dying.

Maybe that's just both of us
being scared in different ways.

i love you it the world
and

i love

how by the way
when you laugh
shakes all your body

just a bit
your body

like your body
it shakes
the rain

it moves even when it doesn't and

it feels warm inbetween my sheets(hands)does
your body

and when you stir
in the morning
stirs more the sting
the hot
the ring the
when it
the morning does
sting does
the stir more ring does

of the sun through my shades
prickling very skinny
it reaches

to touch very lightly your hair
and meets my fingers there

(when you are laying
and i kiss
you
pull tightly
the curl of your legs)

i sit up and look out you
your arms
over me
become
and i
back again
into them
trip

like when i have looked up at the stars and my breath
winds up into them
a neat and easy coil

you are like your lips

and your lips are like the sun
dashing
across infinite nothing
to meet my lips

in such heat
i think them cherry to touch

but a poem is not you
nor are you a word

instead you, Dear, are

nothing is more violent than
love, but i would reconstruct
mountains just to have another
chance to break them down
again with you

i can't break fear
when it's being
built into
me