Me meal's chewin' jeans

Amazing how one tiny tear can
relieve an epoch of pain

if it was I who you mistook
for a cave kiss

raven in sorghum, with whom I do
not know where to expect
that we go

inveighing slicks up
or spite of your slime

tank so truffle-heavy,
are you the arugala leaf?

Cabiria, raring to parlay
imperceptible clowning

spooked by floor, no wonder
enjoins me to ceiling

of letting - but is not why the hum

mutt-bleakened canal

verdant plumage alone you
descend at once with ever

who, precise unto me resound: want
to unsee

spare all under all over - night scion
never beneath, gravelling

reduced to having unveiled no better
than your sex

even truthing to self
your affectionate improbability

so gravitate toward meaning
exhuming positions of star lights
ages ago

what about partisan
veering in toward

we, sans me, too far and too vast
doing without all but not desiring

I am excited to see you, as you know

If you find strength, hope enough to return to my home


you will discover I have chosen solitude over seduction - must have grown


unfearing to tell that I am in love - hallowing, sanctifying for us this space


that when you declare you love me again, it will have been worth the wait.