the day you made it happy
bullet shattered windows
time grayed
cheesecloth curtains
the porch twisted away
all you saw was happiness
alone here
you were never alone
they all came for your dumplings
and your mean jokes
your strangely compelling
sense of home
mercedes
with the hole in the floor
the deep deep ravine
where i dreamed of falling
watching the dogs
weaving down below
next to the barn
the model A
the folded truck
your time stands still
moon over the hayloft
i miss the thrill
of touching 300 hundred year old paintings
against peach sunset walls
shrimp cocktails
cradling black preemies
your friends so beautiful
sharp-witted
crackling star souls
authors
painters
vagabonds
saints
and worst of all
the cnn anchor
that led us to your fall
love doesn't care
doesn't care for you at all
you stayed so sad
for so long
living under the lie
nothing mattered in that place
they poisoned
your sweet hounds
she burned your letters
looted the house
and i couldn't forgive her anymore
