Tanned feet on the pavement
with ocean-blue toenails to match your ocean-wide heart
Laughing at the setting sun, weaving promises under broken tables
Well-worn love letters in the wind, grass stained knees to care
and our sun-battered bikes we threw down on our race to catch lightning
breathing each other in like smoke under flickering streetlamps
The velvet of your valentines suit
matches the velvet of the rose I wouldn't wear
rain streamed down your face in pills
while I took your hand and gently pressed into your care
a heart, unbroken, untested, beating, and bare