All My Bridges

you always i keep

there is only one

right answer to the question 

do you love me?

always. feel free 

to play infinitely 

these words on 

repeat they are some 

of the few i ever got 

right along the way to you

r heart dear unlikeliest of 

no longer strangers

you are invited to 

be charmed by each of the

times i keep falling for you still 

steady your eye on the count 

down from the seconds 

i first laid ears on your stories

any minute 

now i will ruin 

everything i still love
you always were my 

only favorite reason to keep 

trying to get things right 

to keep coming back 

home is where 

my heart is with 

you always i keep

hoping i were not wrong 

to think that 
there is only one 
right answer to the question 

do you love me? 

were i a hummingbird

were i a hummingbird 

i’d hover,

over earth until 

guilty verdicts 

reverberated 

from the laws of gravity.  

were i a hummingbird 

i’d make home 

of her garden, 

and of her olive skin 

which steeps in the green and gold 

of the afternoon 

and iridescence 

percolating through the branches. 

were i a hummingbird 

i’d live swiftly, 

so swiftly she did hear my colors 

writing songs through her lantana. 

were i a hummingbird 

i'd flicker,

into spring and through every direction of her wildest dreams,

like the interweaving lines on her palms

and out from each one of her fingertips. 

were i a hummingbird 

i’d return, 

today, and every today after.

were i a hummingbird 

i'd hope she were hearing,

i'd hope she were seeing

i’d hope she were smiling,

i'd hope that she were nearing

i'd hope she were

were i a hummingbird,

(and she would be).

one way ticket

all my roads 

feel like a one way 

ticket to a cliffs edge. 

in all of my dreams i 

jump before look

ing to the bottom of the canyon 

and a miniature trampoline

hoping to bounce my way 

to the other 

end of these train tracks 

i still wait 

for your ear to press a

gainst. i still keep 

mine held tightly to the steel. i 

will always be 

at your other end i am 

always at your finish line. 

come barrel

ing around my corners 

please come train 

wreck me you know 

i spent every last pen

ny on our one way 

ticket to catastrophe   

but goddam you 

have never made me happi

er to have been so foolish. 

your hair is long

your hair is long 

again like it was 

yesterday has it been 

so long since i re

member what the soft

ness of your 

hands feel like have they 

calloused to my touch? 

in your silence i have count

ed all the ways to say i love 

you and soon 

i reach the walls 

of every i still do

standing be

tween us and you.

do you still 

keep the an

swers to all 

my favorite questions? 

no one can find 

them any 
where only silence i keep count

ing all the ways to say i love

you your hair is long 

again like it was yesterday