poem

[Steppe]

reading
to name
you

become
your
words

alphabet
of
beginnings

ends

forevers


to permit
one
a hung
of maybes

upside down
to a gust
of verbs
nouns
and
ad
verbs

to hang
asleep
in a withered
city

the shoulder
of
a wolf

the cheek
of a shadowed
thing


to put
one
on a beach

one's
own
dune

a May
apple
with a worm

at peace
with your own
dragon


to kiss
the mouth
of expectations

remember
what was
understood

but since
forgotten