9 Short Poems for One Girl

I.

I’ve built my heart like Los Angeles

and still it sprawls out edgelessly.

I fear the gridlocked way it bustles for you.

II.

I would forgo a view of mountains (even

the serried kind with waterfalls)

just to stand next to you

like mountains.

III.

The meteorologist in my soul

left for Seoul some time ago.

Now his instruments lay cluttered

& might whisper in an alien tongue:

“we are for each other.”

IV.

Forgive me for these slender arms

which reach so tactless toward your smile

as rosevines to the sun.

V.

And of course my own lips

are fresh layers of krazy glue,

so if you ever kiss me in the sunlight

make it open-eyed and frenzied

at five o'clock on a workday.

VI.

One bright spring morning we’ll both be cadavers

and grad students will decode these old computers

in our heads.

A lab-hand will tersely skim

the remnants

of those pretty verses

i never sang for you

and he will perhaps smile.

VII.

Our faces are pink tissue paper

wrapped around the shifting vapors

in our heads.

it is in this deep fog

that I would like a lot to meet you.

VIII.

I will reduce my passion

to the most impactful metaphors

and rejoice in the fact

that they are not enough.

IX.

If your eyes echoed mine

I would stop writing

because writing is for when

you don’t have everything.

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