even in my dreams you pass through,
carrying with you a beauty
deep and indifferent

and from frozen lips
you leak my name
slowly,
consciously

then we watch it linger
in the cold, pale air
until it consumes, entirely,
the silence that surrounds it

like only your words can

and I knew it was real when
you said        I love you
   and I said         I love you more
      and you said
                                          "impossible."