you in your mother’s bathroom
adjusting your hair
as i wander, the house to tell you
it’s time to drive to the station
to take the bus to seattle,
and wait for you
to appear.
both our phones die tonight
but, by magus books we make the last bus
and combine our quarters for the pay phone.
nowadays when i text
it feels like texting the dead
a diary to the memory of you
but every couple months like magic
new words resurrect and appear
you are alive
o treasure upon treasures upon treasures…