(Flowers to arrive on Valentine's day. This to arrive Thursday. Me to arrive Friday.)
You make me need white lilies and pink roses
and time with you is home for the holidays and dancing at weddings
when you giggle, children find their mothers
and sailors kiss lovers at the ends of wars
and people laugh in old photographs
and when we speak, our words are like silver finches
and moonlight covers windows like warm honey and wind
and when you hold me, hallows sweep with heat and dust
like homecomings and stage lights
and leaning into the nest of your hair
is like church choirs and applause
and when your arms grip me tighter,
I feel pilots survive test flights
and your fingers like vacation pay
and your voice like delicate song
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