30

A BROTHER ON THE BALTIC

How has this warm
tilting like a planet
commanded
your peeking into
a subplot,
are you saving
strength for a variance

the motor of a mayfly

settled into noticing
the clutter and lilies
by a sedative

Valentine, listen
to the song I’m singing you

These funny sounds are questions

Cancel your nap plans,
we’re going through clothes
left on top of the garbage

birth control meaning
the consolidation of wealth

I mean I hear you
as the pressure that compiles an alternate me

the sorrow in all that relates