Friday, November 13, 2009

a few years ago

the skies fill with the fall cold
and we held our hands
clenched in tiny little
bleached fists until we got old

and gnarled, faces creased like
letters from the attic
yellow, with feathered edges.
sometimes, we would stop and
let the perfect distance
quell the static

that, from heart to heart,
lept like fall leaves kicked up
by a passing car.