everything scares, everything smarts

reach for pocketknives

carved wood memory

tell you what:

dive in-love anew

:woman, you are the different shapes of moon together,

making custard of my plain skin

:letters are hikers, okay? you me holiday — words

:honey, you turned my sorrows into sleepy doodles, into unthinking scribbles, onto

letterbox thorns — send

send

me love some too

some

time

xoxo

:its night again. (we write letters when sleep chooses one of us, leaves the other)

glass windowpane, thin moon beaming, your should-square

i need no war

ever.

this. peace. xoxo

:no emily e e e dont just please

my heart, just fling on the rails, you go

:you take care

me- burnt, not quite ash yet

the sea says

nothing stays

i fossilized on

kite toelined-shore,

leaning against messy picket,

polaroid fixed on waxy mouth

while

polishing saudade off a

plate of boiled beans,

fare-well-not-so-much