Walking through the cottonwoods along a blue-green sea of reeds the spring pond ripples with ducks and coots glint of red on wings the singing blackbirds silver minnows flash by and wriggle in beaks of fisher birds, so swift the time to live and die.
She was a thrifted sweater and denim and jersey knit sheets Pizza breath and red wine and toothpaste Alabaster skin and knotted hair and freckled shoulders A tangible dream and my favorite good morning She agreed to let me kiss her and I agreed to let her slip my shirt over my head before she became Blood and tears "I trusted you" and "I’m sorry" Midnight poems and a drunk "I need you" I’m afraid I loved you like the way I wrote