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A love poem...

4/23/2018

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pretty poem

i really do like those jeans
on you.
i like your half smile
your nervous hands
the way you gesture
when we’re sitting at our kitchen table
talking
and the world is just too much.
i like that you always consider
what i might need for my lunch,
the way you put up
with my constant revelations
and my best ideas.
i like that you only wear black t shirts,
that’s all that’s in your drawers.
i like your jokes and your catch phrases.
everyone thinks you’re mean
but you’re actually just shy.
your music is terrible.
cher and rod stewart and iron and wine,
i have to leave the kitchen.
i like that you know what you’re doing,
that you bend pipe and twist wires.
i like that you spark something.
the heart tattoo with my name across it
​makes me smile.

i love holding your hand
walking to the store
in the deepening after dinner dark
as the streetlights come on
one by one,
and the way
i can lean into you
away from the wind and the chill.

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how are you?

4/18/2018

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how are you?

last night i stood in the parking lot
for a few minutes,
just drinking the deepening sky
before the meeting.
​

when someone asks how i am
i throw out
busy
stressed
working a lot
had a good trip
the kids or the project or
something reasonable.

i don’t ever say
i’m heartbroken.
that’s how i am.

today that memory flash and
the tents by the tracks
and a very kind man
facing deportation
and a woman
not saying
he put hands on me and
excuses for the detonation
of an entire people and
that was by dinner time.
i could write this list
into next year and not even
begin.

good morning.
your heart is broken,
even if you don’t feel it yet.
please don’t ask how i am
unless you want sky shards
and a story that will
make you throw up on your boots.
it’s time for work
so i’m putting this away.

​how are the stars cutting
through your windpipe
​and what was it
you almost said instead of
i’m fine?






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