For Emma, Forever Ago

 Poetry 22

[2017]

The grass is always greener

'til I'm with her

Then I'm in the pasture

On the beach with her head on my chest

Heart beating to the rhythm of the waves

Hands intertwined, asking goofy questions

"If you were a leaf, what would your name be?

If you were a whale, what shape would be your tail?

Superpower 1, 2, 3

Invisibility

Jinx infinite"

You can cure it with a kiss

I'll dot your delicate wrist

and caress your slender neck 'til you purr

Oh her, oh her eyes seep into mine

Oh her, oh her soul encased in gold

Unfold it for me

Make me see that shining ocean

Eyes open to the wonders that await

But Brooklyn was an unsaid goodbye

Fuck if I didn't cry in that taxi

Fuck if that plane home didn't shatter me

like a two-ton sledgehammer on a glass pane

I still escape to that pasture

where the grass grows evergreen

And my heart still beats to the rhythm of the sea

Under the comforting weight of your head on my chest

on the beach

You were good to me

You were good for me

The memories I keep