Everyone remembers everything eventually

 

 

Our first encounter

was as moon slugs

slavering through the glass tilth of the regolith,

confined to parallel trajectories 

the earth sun baking

the black bow ties around our tiny necks

dirt and pretty

 

Then we were a pair of tears,

tracer ammunition

on the fustered cheeks 

of a nightclub nubile

just emerged from her cocoon

after a summer of estivation 

lusting yet lack lustre 

in the gaps between 

the pounding beats

 

I was an electron microscope

and you were a rare tropical virus 

flattened between

smooth glass cheeks 

you squirmed dangerously

flaunting your fascinator  

under my 

highest setting

trying so softly 

 

On a bastard bleached ochre beach

we were North American desert tortoises 

you gave me a thousand yard stare

which added 

silence to distance 

we drank 

our sides barely touching 

until we were betrayed

by time

 

And now

in this particular 

gentle forever

where we have neither danced

nor hidden,

you have sent me complicated Italian music,

photographs of tiny bridges

and asked me how it is

we have never met before

 

And all I ask of you

is to remember