blue dog

The day you died

Blue Dog fell

I don't know how

A favorite painting knows

When its admirer has departed

But I swear

He knew

When I saw the loosened nail

And his portrait

Face down

In reverence 

Across your chair

super bloom (for californian lovers)

You're not crazy

He cared about you

He just

Didn't

Care

Enough 

He gave you sun

Without rain

So you think you are a desert

But

What you don't know 

Is that tomorrow the torrent will cleanse you

And under your skin

Your thirsty seed

Will rise

A Super Bloom

once i reached for the stars

No

Actually 

Yes

You confessed

When I asked about tattoos 

You pointed to three dots

Pinpricks

A quiet trinity around your head

A constellation across the map of your skin

I touched one black star

A reminder that once

Your body waged war inside of you

Once

You were marked on the operating table

Once 

You suffered 

And survived

I thought they were the loveliest tattoos 

I'd ever seen

And now

When I lay my head upon its only pillow 

And gaze longingly at evening's stars

They all seem too bright

They all seem too far

Like you

What I would give

To kiss your dark stars

Goodnight 

my broken heart is still your home

So

It's just you and I 

Again

I said 

To God

When the other gentleman 

Walked out of my heart

And left us with enough space 

To do cartwheels 

And repaint the walls

And see each other from every crack

Of rainbow light

Seeping through its still pulsing skin

A promise

After the flood

Where the new landscape seems

Quiet

And strange

And my patience is tried

By its slow fertility 

So

Here we are

Again