when i was born the snow fell
heavy and deep all around the hospital
in the highest sign of fire

one human life
is worth all the gold
buried and exhumed
from this earth

what are your overlarge eyes
observing right now, amongst the jewelry
of this heavily adorned city

when we last met
she failed to say i love you,
now goodbyes pull
at the corners of my vision

i've known
your softness like
a million kittens' ears

"you need love, i think"
yes, but when i find it,
i'm sure we'll disagree

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a fate no worse than frolic, when rain cleans the sky
we think of shadows no darker than pinkpurple
plums, flowers on some unseen edge of hypotheses:
a valley where our separate trajectories serendipitously
collide, eye to eye, river to sea, one unsafe
eventide i'll come to you, heart out and offer
all the elephantrides and tambourinewines you
could ever have the time to love.