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prefer the breathless summer ing
to other parts and times within
the desperate flowering of speech

he was a sapling sipping on
your sheets. his clausal branches donned
a swarming sounding each to each

now he is I and without will
and no verb     but to (nicely) wilt
apologizing every day

i saw a bird you would have loved
you would have cataloged him on
your phone, but [tense]
                                                                      got in the way

{June 2, 2021}