Monday, April 22, 2024

wrapped



you tease me with need, apples & emptiness
struggling to hardwire
lounging there in yellow silk boxers 
against your father's blueprint 
aging with bitter remorse 
without awareness

i hate football

and struggle to understand my own fragility

what is it that binds & stretches to accommodate our twisted, wounded selves
acceptance comes with a cost; 
a kiss of popcorn & fresh red peppers
a blizzard whorls beyond our walls 
and if you would open just long enough
would 
fall
into your blue eyes 14 thousand feet deep
rich with wisdom & words and muscles hard
willing 
our bones are old and speak of chasms of mirth & merit
replete with lovers, summers & wine 

why the goodbye
why walls of blue-glass brick
to find the hole again 

altars of divine care & memory to what was & what could be 
sparked by flannel warmth & distance spanned by

love