heartbroken, housebroken I lost your nuance, pray remind me redness across my chest, heat and too many voices at once
heartwarmed, housewarmed big sweaters, his sweaters on your shoulders, no makeup the basement with gray fabric trees, and baby kisses, and baby steps.
the milk-foam and the letβs-meet-again espresso hiding untouched posited tomorrow among banana peels and pearls and tissue
and after, cranberry stains on teacups piled in the kitchen (a very narrow human interval between two tiger heartbeats) and tight sweaters, grown-up make-up that same basement, blank before morning
and the Philosophe, my favorite couched villain over us too many voices discussing horticulture or eternity I Do Not Recognize Eternity, is what I told you
tigers slow down for the night, sometimes --the quickest change of heart, is what you thought