I'm in Love with a Statue
Take me home, sweet statue of stone,
your smooth skin beckons my hand to rise from my side
and strike your thousand-year-old cheek.
The stripes from my human sweat
leave a mark on the calm marble
while my heart races.
Summer Again
Soaking up the rain and whipping spit of the waves, as he stood next to the ocean of my memory, a fire hydrant in a red windbreaker, glaring in the midst of a water storm, how I wished it was summer again. Matching silver rings and glances over coffee, army jackets and annual cigarettes, looking at the stonework on the buildings forever, necks craning to see the falcons carved like gargoyles, high enough, on their third story ledges, to amaze us but not so close as to pose any real threat. Under the willow tree, I will always be, with his hands on my shoulders.
