You Never Did
You never did leave for Japan on that tiny raft
we talked about. I never had the chance
to pack you a lunch or imagine you
bobbing out on the Pacific - our love purer
each day spent apart.Fate wanted that voyage! She'd made plans, she had in mind
storms of an advanced spiritual nature,
she wanted you tossed on a black poisonous sea
while I on shore would post letters of absolute felicity
- white-winged singing letters
flying low and at a steady pace behind you.