small oaks

our numbers (poem)

how can i make this mean something to you

there is electricity inside of a transformer on
a pole outside of my window

i want you to understand

have you ever been in a library before?

I have
I’ve been in libraries a lot
If you haven’t
I can imagine what that’s like

how can i put a unique thought in your head

have you ever drank sweet tea before?

I have
I’ve drank it every so often

I want you and me to grow a litte

I want my brain to think in a new way and I
want you to think of a number

it can be any number
hold that number in your head

i am listening and grooving out to some of
my favorite music

i want you to listen to an groove out to some of
your favorite music

and I want you to do this in public and not
care about what other people think of you

like I am doing right now

we are together now
and you can’t deny it

I am with you now as you are with me

I want you to put unique thoughts in my
head and I don’t want you to stop until I am
dead thank you

I want to groove out with you in this poem
and we will both feel the tightness of the
groove in our chests

I want you to tell someone something you
have been wanting to tell them
and if you want me to as well I will

I know in my chest we both want everyone to
tell their someone something they have been
wanting to tell them

And if you say you don’t
I know you’re lying

I know words get in the way sometimes but I
wanted to tell you something

I heard about what happened and I thought a
lot about it

It’s no big deal really the way I think about
things sometimes I hope you know that

I just wanted to say I think you are a tree and
that’s all I ever need you to be

The plot was me sitting on my bed as the
seasons changed

The prose was in a minimal style so I didn’t
use many words

I wrote a book about all of the time I spent
thinking of you

It was a three hundred and sixty five page
book with twelve chapters, fifty two
sentences, twenty four adjectives, and
seven words

everything in it was about you

I recorded an album about how
beautiful you are

It was thirty tracks with ten original
songs, three covers, and one
improvisational jam 

everything in it was about you

I hope you are still thinking of that number I
told you to hold in your head

That number is the number of our children
we are having babies

that’s what I meant when I told you there is
electricity inside of a transformer on a pole
outside of my window duh

if I ever see you in a library we can name our
babies after the authors of whatever books
we are standing nearest to 

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returning home

there is a girl in the morning sunlight beside a river
she is naked riding a stag under snow covered branches
above a waterfall,

there is a trout dreaming of speeding bullets
he awakens in the talons of machinery

breaks free
from the sky,

bounces off of the girl’s left breast
and then goes over the waterfall