Golden retriever

 

talking to you feels like washing my face

in the shower

now I remember -

this is what happens when you love someone

 

come over

I’ll make you tuna melts

then we can hike across the central plains

and drive at night and laugh and

stop the car only to make out every once

in a while

 

I’ll point at cows and say ‘look, cows!’

I’ll point at the roadkill and say ‘oh no’

and time will stop still, a sperm whale sleeping.

I think of us doing trivial things like this

quite often

like a fool

 

strange.

your being so far away could almost be funny

if it weren’t so debilitating

I lie on the bed, imagine you on top of me

and feel stupidly human,

utterly happy.