Ear wet and soggy and warm from resting
against yours. Fast heart beats and slow
breast to breast. Napping and the stink of
the back of your ear fills my nose and
my cellphone screen.
We could have matching earrings
if you wanted. In the buster times,
glass breaks and eggshells chime.
Wake up to the sound of buses pounding
streets and gasping to stop. Eyelashes touch
and do you remember the time you said
I was an odd ball while I
tried to explain the width of your hips
and their math?
Shutter window and flame on
ceiling lights. I electrocuted myself
to make you laugh. Wipe snot from lip
before kiss and finish.
I will walk
to the ends of the earth to see
and see you again.
Be sorry. Be new. Brush teeth and stroke
sinew. Build to a way to
see.
Dreams fall apart like cookies with too much milk.
Letters unsent. Finger paint. Dried brush.
Cups wash. Nails torn free by lip.
Gnawed and temper and lighter and flayed.
Once each year.
I love you. Asleep and flying through the air.
I love you. If I can. If you do not mind.
If and only if. Toothpick chewed to nub.
I love you.
Can and only if. a h jk e. Witho .
I love you. Can I kiss you once each year?
I dream about you. I fear. Will you
kiss me once each year?
