We made those wish sky lanterns one summer
but they started fires because we drank jeiggermiester and lit them on a windy night
and all around the dry crackle July fields of the house that I first lived with you we ran like idiots
with buckets of water
and we were going to do so many things
and I still listened religiously to female singers
and tori would tell me that things are gonna change so fast
but we still had invincible skin and time to blow
hard against the beautiful hills of Ohio
and all night long I would be with you
and I learned that sex in the movies was always stupid and fast
and it was really slow like slugs
leaving their trails across the universe
wet whisper arias that echoed through a hamlet
through a tiny forest
and in the mornings when all of the fields were slick with dew
I would walk them to the edge of our property
to where the small post box hung rickety
and I would raise my arms up and
tell everyone and no one that this was the most beautiful place in the world