Friendship Is A Deep Love
           (for Heather)

time,
its fleeting way bewilders.
a day will come when
you will not know my name
and my body will flounder.
till then we have each other.
you are in me as I am in you.
together we're thick salsa,
spiced just right.

last night we danced on ice.
wore our hipster hats.
talked to the crows.
ate chocolate cake.
we're pinned together,
affixed like wind and water.
my loud arms are your loud arms
wrapped in a perfect love,
however imperfect we may be.
we say the stars are the masters.
they know more than we do.
some nights I talk to them.
whisper. ask for your healing.
for us the good life no longer shines.
but love does.
we dance, joke, sing.
compose poems to steal each other's breath.

what I do is for you.
what you do is for me.
we hold each other with gracious care.
stay till the jewels in the night sky
invite us up to dance.
till our vast breaths are set to music
above the earth.
till the last light lays pillow soft upon us
and the flood lights of oblivion
welcome us into that elusive mystery.
cast forever.
wed forever.