Nebraska

Here we are
in the cornfields again.
This windy, flat place
with my old friend.

I remember the reason
I love the Midwest.
The big open sky
fills up your eyes.
The infinite blue
that swallows you.

I think I still like Colorado best

Living Together

You say we basically do live with each other
"Try to remember"
- you say-
"how many nights you've slept alone..
Besides getting shipped away to
the ever ominous field."
Not- too- many

I do have hobbies.
I paint, I skate
I'm writing this poem
but there is an inherent magic
in doing things together
To hiking hand in hand
To having a belay partner.
To skating like the pretty princesses
we most certainly are.

I love you
but I've done this before
Promise me you'll pay rent
That you'll still love me
through the dishes we do,
the laundry that piles,
the cleaning of bathrooms,
the collaborative design,
the dog we shall be
the proud of parents of.

Promise me ..
That you won't leave me.
That we'll stay in love.
Please