Dear One

Where did you come from bright star?

What heaven did you leap from dear love?

How can I spell your name without the sound of autumn underneath my tongue?

Without acknowledging the levers who bent me in half Bless them for bringing me to you

How can i say your name without also breathing the words, "My God I found you"?

How can I ever speak again with this mouth when it has found where it belongs?

When you touch me, I'm a bed of callillys

I will make a house for you and fill it with evergreens

I will paint sunsets on every wall so you can only see beautiful things

How can I say love without wanting to fold myself into you like a thousand paper cranes?

Dear one,

I was halved the moment I was born

Either piece of me is inside your mouth

And I was found whole the moment you spoke.