and lastly
I thought about
the first person
I should have thought about
in the first place
and I did
and I didn’t
and it was inappropriate
in some ways
but mainly it wasn’t
oh my
how you became
so beautiful
so suddenly
in my eyes
and to think
years and years ago
we were lost for words
and couldn’t speak
in the summer heat
skirting the border
windows down
heading for the coast
where
you said
pelicans fly in formation
up and down the coast
and people say
peace
and hey man
it’s where we went
until the weather turned