Of owing

How many are adressed to lovers what will you do
with all these
who are where, who are who

And the words they use and the world they use
to describe it, to inscribe stone
standing in sun and moon and starlight

Are the light are the bright eyes round the fire
the fire, circumscribed circum
locution is most direct route

To addressing lovers adressing others and others
are the fires' embers, and embers
will burn still when you are, where you are
gone and the night will not see their light

I will be the night around your shoulders love
the darkness along your spine
line and wrinkled skin and I will not see
you when we're among those dark words