STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF A LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP

                        i
                     know
I love your hands full
                     of wasps
   hunting thick sap early in the morning.


  Autumn when everything seems possible:
                  even in decay
         the remains of the
dead  and fallen         logs
        smell like something settled.

when the season turns i
                  sample
richness    I invite
             the touch of your lips to mine
            and   the
  trees
                     truncate
      our shadows in

   the      light    s o  that

               we balance between inertia and arrival
I watch you
                     reflect
quiet on a cloudless day

            you know how
                 I desire abundance