tate, georgia

Where
Broken carousel
Lights track canopy
Clouds, comfort gray
Without stars and
Gravity

To focus 

Kudzu
Into highway 
Whispers, everthen photos
And crumpled notes,
Ponytails

Never fall

On 
Sometimes breasts 
And arched backs 
Under nevernow
Sweaters.

Our plans

Trip
On the lanterns
Of stucco black men
Who know we should
Have stayed
In

Kentucky.

There
Is where is
The semicircle
Of fifteen points
You tried to make.
This is

Where it ends:

Tate, Georgia is still made of marble;
Your eyes still make me come;
The shortest distance
Between your
Mouth and
Forever
Is me.

Photo: Eartha Kitsch