Thursday, October 16, 2008

october, night


dear beauty,

it was nice to see you hanging. i don't yet know my plans for christmas but brooklyn is sounding mighty tempting. your poem came to me tonight, for reasons both lovely and painful.

exes and ohhs,

beauty

__________________________

yes the leaves will change
fish-skins to red then ragged

yes the snow will fall
spring come in

how do you say it?
like a lion, out, a lamb

summer will stick to us
we’ll get a new fan

a fly swatter
lie naked again

our window’s view
will change a hundred

times a hundred more
but tonight heart

plump and red
you beat perfect

tonight heart
you have never been wrong

never wronged
sweet apple

go go

(-nicole hefner)