“You gave me more than I could ever need & even
created more needs just so you could fulfill them”
Is it true the closer you get to someone
the more of a mystery they are?
How can I render you free
in words like one or three
looking away looks like a way
the sound is happy, the meaning
moans, but I don’t mind
the discrepancy bees flirt
but you probably mean flit
as if beyond the kind of “I”
that needs a you to tell itself to...
& the temptation is strong to wear you like eyes....
to learn to let the sea of your polyvocal monologue
wash over me longer
so it tires us both out
as the artist formerly known as love
may appear in clothes you wear better
if almost everything you said
didn’t make we want to slow down
& insert a quip or question
really important at the time
for whatever is afraid to drown
in erasing words from all past uses
“When I’m writing about you
I’m really writing about me
or what would be me
if I stopped trying to call it you
or the heart or the soul or the body
or the mind, defining my _____
by address.”
Fixed?
adequate opposites
in a distance of becoming only different
from being if we catch ourselves
squinting, as if we have to be
indifferent enough
to be different enough to ________”
& if you think you got my number
I promise not to say how dare you reduce me
(& is it a problem if I feel closer
to someone’s mind than my own body?)
