One day until wheels leave ground and I am airborne And two three dancing at the derby and Three four spine like I will travel down old paths And old familiar eyes Angels and batboys both need running shoes And twenty years later will I say your name? Skywise it puffs up like proud bird and God will go bowling soon I’ll point my toes toward the red If only for a day more A night more One love at a time at a viper’s speed Pouncing on heart and freeing the room that was left Behind years ago Where falling leaves live, and earthworms the size of Stormtroopers, cats the size of Two-stories, hands the size of Me. And I pause for dreaming I remember running, running so fast, so far in rain At six or seven, running in stealth, me and Roberto Fast with tight white Florida shirts baring Arms, hands brown Shorts baring brown legs, dirty knees (post lizard hunting) And that lightning could have pounded me in the chest as he Closed in fast Closed in grabbing Arms tight closed in hard and fast On pink mouth with kiss And the rain ran down curiosity The rain ran down a different take on Father The rain ran down balloons and birthday scotch I felt tongue muscle slide across wet bottom lip Fierce Florida destitute forlorn poor kids Learning the way to longer days Punching the sky with boredom and new-found Belly clenching activities I don’t want to give, I say. I don’t want to Have to quiet down. I want to yell it scream it kick it whisper it Bigger than my life before I want to swim before and after by MY hand. I want to keep my words, and my womb and my wicked hands And throw them slowly to the sea I want to learn 5 ways to say I desire you. I want to be silent and only watch. I want a different take on this all. I want to rub chocolate on the white house and Eat from my yard I want to eat you like a whole almond, he said. Me and time we see, And I never knew the shape of trees in a hurricane. And I love has never left me so full as these years, two And I wait for your foot on the stair. | 
