the october rose is wistful and reticent our defenses dense like sediment and sentences love descends like a fog and we begin as quickly to depart our dialogue takes many turns from staunch to raunchy in a few minutes there is no need to be concerned its only in our heads our needs no longer mean anything love is lost in forms amidst the storms of anger and rage imprisoning our souls dinosaur bones roam the earth i went out in search of chrysanthemums and instead i found you lying on the ground making a pillow out of superconductive fungi to test your theories of interconnectivity what transpired cannot be spoken about all my doubts vanished and the words that were spoken resounded for days in my being as if they echoed from within some part of me that had always longed to hear them