i just thought you should know
i love you
every facet of you
i love you when you're stressed
and it feels like you're not even present
and i love you
when you're so vibrant
i have to hide my eyes
and i bet you're wondering how
i can even call this
poetry
but you don't see
the way you look
at me
and that
my darling
is the song i've been singing
since the moment we met.

When you sat down
beside me
it started to
drizzle.


By the time
we reached
your car,
it was
pouring.

i was born there in that little house.
the one perched on top of muddy ditches and willow branches.
with broken boards piled where i crawled like a beetle.
dipping my hand in that bird bath, porcelain and cold,
i touched the world.
i touched the chill.
and water droplets stained my tattered dress
and i watched them disappear from me.
it was cold there.
cold with water on my hand
and the wind in my ears
and the ghost from under the deck
and the remainder of yesterday.

Darkness falls
On top of dusk
Never reaching
Daytime’s dust

No need to wonder what's on my mind:
It's you.