Day 10

For Kika
happy birthday, wonderful girl.


I do not believe in permanent separation. After all,
we are constantly in motion. Our lives are
pendulums swinging beneath clock hands,
the circular path of a planet in orbit,
tides washing and drying and
washing and
drying,
Our friendship is nature's strongest poem.
No matter the months eroding our canyon walls or
the states filling the rift between us,

There are six degrees of separation between everyone
so the man next to me in the airport knows you better than I do,
I pretend I am talking to you.

I look for you at a crowded poetry slam,
waiting until someone else fills the seat
I wanted to be yours.

Find me nestled under ukulele strings,
a random page in your favorite notebook,
When the gavel in your stomach bangs a little too loudly,

find me in food.
Calories are just the energy it takes to start a fire and
One day, your heart will be ablaze. Find me
in the moment before the flame.