Please
Remember me
Happily
By the rose bush laughing
with bruises on my chin
The time when
We counted every black car
passing your house
beneath the hill
and up until
someone caught us in the kitchen
with maps
of a mountain range
a piggy bank
a vision to removed to mention
but please
remember me
fondly
I heard from someone
You’re still pretty
And then they went on to say
That the pearly gates
Have some elegant graffiti
Like ‘we will meet again’
And ‘fuck the man’
And ‘tell my mother not to worry’
And angels with their gray handshakes
Are always done in such a hurry
and please
Remember me
At Halloween
Making fools of all the neighbors
Our faces painted white
By midnight
We’d forgotten one another
And when the morning came
I was ashamed
Only now it seems so silly
That seasons left the world
And then returned
But now you’re lit up by the city
So please
Remember me
Mistakenly
In the window of the tallest tower
Call then pass us by
But much too high
To see the empty road at happy hour
Gleam and resonate
Just like the gates
Around the holy kingdom
With words
Like ‘lost and found’
And ‘don’t look down’
And ‘someone save temptation’
And please
Remember me
As in the dream
We had as rug burned babies
Among the falling trees
And fast asleep
Beside the lions and the ladies
That called you what you like
And even might
Give a gift for your behavior
A fleeting chance to see
A trapeze Swinger high as any savior
But please
Remember me
My misery
And how it lost me
All I wanted
The dogs that love the rain
And chasing trains
The colored birds
Above there running in circles
Round the well
And where it spells
On the wall behind St. Peter’s
So bright
On cinder gray
In spray paint
"Who the hell can see forever"
And please
Remember me
Seldomly
In the car behind the carnival
My hand between your knees
You turned from me
Said the trapeze act was wonderful
But never meant to last
The clowns that passed
Saw me just come up with anger
When it filled with circus dogs
The parking lot
Had an element of danger
So please
Remember me
Finally
All my uphill crawling
My dear
But if I make
The pearly gates
I’ll do my best to make a drawing
Of god and Lucifer
A boy and girl
An angel kissing on a sinner
A monkey and a man
A marching band
All around the frightened trapeze swinger…
