love love

Unnamed

can you, you, smell lovely to me?

can you think, express lovely thoughts with your eyes

to for me?

Can, can, you wear a strawberry sweater 

& offer free & total love, a moment, of

for all?

All hurts

All forgotten moments?

hurts

All Marla’s?  yellow hair, too long and beautiful for me?

All Mona Leo’s? an ache in her voice because she could not come to The Band on New Year’s Eve?

All Barbara’s? ‘the loving me, killing, softly?’ room 937? the hiding and sleeping the lost? itself lost.

what can I offer you? alone, a searcher? My name? Yes & also just

just my deep Deepest needs, desires

a moment’s moments

only only one moment. alone you, me alone or only

 my offer? me

I offer, I can do

do the same for and with you.

& and forgive, Forgive your hurts, your & my aloneness,

I am in with love, I touch

 your past- but I

I fail