7.16.25

The misty rain melting through the window and the lights buttering up the other side of the bay

Are our only real witnesses. I want a love affair with you

That reminds us of who we were

When we met. When we were young. When you

Were enchanted

With me.

There is a summertime magic to the romance we weave through the lazy evening together

Someone else is feeding the kids while I crack a crab's claw

The way my other lover showed me

And ask if you want some. Tell me about him, you say, and your eyes

Are violet in this light

Are golden in this light

And there is an intimacy no one can explain--it can only be felt--between us, something languid

Utterly sincere

Like the sky at twilight, ripe with a blue

I see in the translucent skin of your beautiful eyelids, your beautiful eyes.

Tell me about him means

Tell me about you

Tell me who you were when it happened, tell me how you love when I'm not around, tell me

Everything.

I adore you.

There is no more noble form of love

Than seeing who you love. I break the hard pink shell with my bare hands, ignoring the sideways look from the waitress

And offer you the best meat

And my stories

In other words: my heart.