for Sara K.

for Sara K.

we lay wrapped in each other,
above the city,
above the ocean.
beyond the rest of our lives.

oh, you captured me.
I was so young
and your face
and your hair
and your hands
came from nowhere,
unsuspecting,

and carried me off
in our room. loved me
across the mornings.

“you shake me
into the world,”
you said to me, afterwards,
when we were quiet.


      I remember perfectly
      the street, the city
      the smell of the ocean.

      after all those years
      I am still caught
      unawares when you cross my heart
      as I sleep.