You

An Ode

You pulled the craziest hat trick

Your needling shoves and smiling eyes

Pulled me out of words

What is a boy to do?

A coarse cooing laugh shielded me

From man’s sprawling infantry 

Its billion charred pupils 

Hollowed from banished thought

Your love a permanent autumn

So haunting we always skipped to spring

I knew days with you would be fatal

The way we never see a lake form

Your inevitable moving on 

Choked the sky of its wind

A funereal wake of twig and did end

Anything of beauty along this sandy road

Only you knew how to spell the living

With that quick turn and taunting look

Even I, as the last man, knew you 

Had some other more verdant galaxy to charm

I only ever a signatory to this accord

A courier, a missive amidst currents incomprehensible 

A fanned leaf of the hunting owl

Giddy, mis-thinking my motion was anything other than the briefest borrowing

Of your kindled flame