How many times have you fallen in love?
How many times have you stayed?
I’ve fallen in love in a minute
A million minutes
And I’ve fallen again today—
There was something about you,
Or what I thought was you
That met something about me,
Or what you thought was me,
Or what I thought was me
—And the moment stuttered.
It shone
It blushed
With clumsy, bashful beauty
Fleeting
And glorious.
I left brimming.
I left parched.
I cling to that moment and fuse it beside
The others, link after link
Woven among the cockles,
Secret cortaneous art.
