we watched the sun sink
below the horizon,
our footprints in the sand
erased by the rising tide,
we told each other secrets,
and you wrote "I love you"
in the frost on the apartment
windowpane. we watched it bleed
into a single tear. you are of the time
when the snowflakes fell in july,
the beautiful and brief moment
of holding hands when our shadows
walked together...
...our paths cross for a moment on a city street,
your smile is the rose opening at night,
your eyes a feather caught in the wind,
a whisper, and then gone.