Monday, July 12, 2010

mccxviii

Smoke at Dawn

Stop.  Stop.  All I could think last night –
WHOLE NIGHT – was 
– momentous– 
happy  truly liberating loss that is unhappy 
me.  Lost inside this unrecognizable night.

Now me down here – going for the
scope of the chaos, this relationship
that is me talking myself out loud 
 
into being.  Not dating one of his

students metaphorically.  All I could 
think of is wonder – I won’t get to
hold that hand if he returns.