i left you in the darkness
your face lit by a screen
you said i had grown colder
well i'm colder than i seem

and you have no mythology
that compares, my love, to this
as unlikely as the gods
that care what we have done

so put your arms around me
like a circle round the sun
I want you to love me mama
like my easy rider done

and i'm longing for your body
baby please come home
i'm the one who loves you
do you love
the darkness more

sleet patting on the taxi window
AM crackle of soukous on radio
the sex-salted lips
mile end and big beers spilled in snow
when leaves fell on our faces
pointe pizza home to
trains and slides and black coated monkey children
and a dark spindle over the parking lot
bright lights on twin church spire
and i'm dry and weak and drunk
and the year is over
and i'm going down slow

call it the sun's effect
through this window
i was so happy last summer
and i
spent some days
eating cake and reading kafka
pondering the things
that make you
laugh