future without

i am summer

in the grass

the movement

of a dead body

the anything anyone?

who wants you and i

tried and true

and left only

for me and you

to discover in the

winter on the trees

and the autumn

in the colours

and that body there

– mine –

that is still and lonely

like the eye of a hurricane

but can have the company of two

if we lift it together

*

i am led to believe

that life is

seeing the most beautiful girl

on the subway line

going the other way

and you hoping she’ll look

and she does

then gazes away

to the future without

*

it is only

after an organism

that silence is

known

and sex is sought

after more than

any other time,

but we are too tired

from sex

and silence alike

*

love is

meant to create

children who

we really love

and who are thankfully

not like us

or our love