A Cargo of Green Hearts
~POEMS~
the Bear fell in the love with Night
and Night fell in love with the Bear and the two ran away through all disapproval to the sea & sailed away in a day for a thousand years maybe they say out there still there there can you imagine them running together like unlikely clouds the Bear a coat patch sewn on the Sea an ebon-hulled schooner or the cussing storm-cauled captain wheel gripped in his teeth and Night the coattail sails that transport so beautiful stars topple down down to drowse in Her billowed lateens and snore like bells. the Bear had a nose for wind and Night an eye for destinations just careless enough they made the monthly poems just careful enough they were never caught. if you believe their lovemaking brought storms then believe that in their thigh-twined collapse the world grew so calm that Death wept. they were as happy as two things can be when they forget what they were supposed to be go away and begin to mean something else. Reader be careful don't stumble and die doubting this idiotic love or you'll spend your next life crying on the bottom of the sea. some things are true only when they are brought together like wires in the red metal of your chest: Bear, Night. Love is it like that an unnatural pairing of spring hunger and blind faith. it is where all of the good stories come from the impossible we go to when we finally realize the strange paths of the heart are not ours to determine but to take.
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