Everywhere in your house
envelopes held their contents close
no matter how slight the subject
or plain the package
Theories:
economy of possible postage prepaid
fear of address books mislaid
a pleasing rectangularity
a woman’s guardianship of opening
musical sense of duet
read versus contrapuntal as of yet
unwanted message dread
against the expanding universe
proximity’s heroic stand
Misgivings ran so deep
I had begun to despair
at the tear in our torn
for the entire time
that it had been a noun
yet here am I
in imperfect rhyme
with speech solemn down
come joyous up
to verb you again
10 March 2012