Sunday, April 1, 2012

when i like you



when i like you

i'll be quiet.
it's backwards, i know, but
inevitable. i persist
to extremes, sending you bits
to chew & piece a hole.

when i like you, you'll know
by the ways my eyes will look
away, by the attention
you won't directly receive. by the
hidden in my agenda, you'll see it
looming like cheek kisses, lips. closing in,
the exposure turns to irony. by the unmined
avalanches, the questions will form
themselves in our solitude.

by the pressing heat i bear
& birth, the willful wet flowers
fall into a new november. by the growing
humping unused season at bay,

you won't know the difference
between reach
& retract.

2004

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