By Galadrial
Submitted by Galadrial
Date: 2012 Oct 28
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Come The Shift In Season

By the time this she bitch
has danced over New England
killing fall with a smother
of such stubborn leaves,
we will be in the next season
Heartless cold November,
that month you hate to greet.

I will not eye my window
in expectation,
the suddenly nude trees
will seal you into
a pleasant prison
where we can lay lips
or fingertips to glass,
but no taste of breath
can funnel through.

We kiss well, you mention
words casual
as if your eyes did not
leave a hot trail on my neck,
and I want to make a fort
of puffy down blankets,
and watch the first snow
from the cradle of your arms,
nose pressed to pane,
no child of yours,
no daddy issues please
just take me
as if the winter
were not a wall
I've watched rise and fall
like some moon misbegotten tide
so many turns before.