when you asked me about certainty and if my mind was a tree rooted in cement and truth i was on my unaccustomed knees blinking into a sunbeam's architecture when the brilliant wind brought you to me to cure me with the miracle touch i was alone by a window dreaming through glass you bent toward me in a mile wide sky a butterfly with a skinny voice or an adorable tomato in a retail uniform before that i only knew the clouds as bears wrapped in pastel baby-blankets before i first kissed you in the street i knew the sunset as a drop of fire in a barrel of whiskey and suddenly your eyes like a deep pool in a forest seeking out my past with the molecular traces of your fingers across my abdomen mandalas blooming out of our palms only touching at the fingers as flames from mosquito torches filled the round coral faces of my gauges with apricot light