Poems For Her: 5. Now It's July

1.

I am an an Aries, with Mars as my guiding planet.

Let’s have the war god in all his aspects, shall we?

You are a Sagittarius. So far apart and yet we both have souls of fire.

2.

I wanted to write you a poem

A real one

All symbolism and rhyme

and romantic language.

But I can’t quite. Not

yet.

Rhyming poems are better

for love that can

be diluted

Distilled

Bottled and corked

In pink glass

and put on a shelf

Ready to be drunk.

My love for you is not so

Capitalist

I love your mind

And, of course, I love your body

But not

Neatly

Not in a way

I can easily

Put to lyrics

3.

I want you here

No, I want to be with you.

No, I want us BOTH to be somewhere

else

Far away

Alone

Together

4.

I see your face in song lyrics

And hear your voice in poetry

And your names, over

and over

and over

5.

I hate kissing

But I want to kiss you

Be kissed by you

Braid your hair

And tell my mom

To fuck off.

6.

I want to see you dressed up in pretty clothes

And then undress you

Completely

All of you

As bare before me

As I always seem to be before you.