You are my present continuous tense, temporal
unsure if this is it at all.
I dread the third conditional because the past
is inside it, already pooling into mind.
And if you look and look to find
the tightened mouth on two
three and trois are still aligned,
but not blue and bleu and you.
I don’t hear Spanish but I know
a few words
the ones I needed.
Nous sommes nu together, a part of my heart
but when he is there we say ils.
He watches the doll dress
sees mine to eye to eye
in the back, a pocket mirror
lipstick smudge on thigh.
The leopard to the lamb on land
to lie down with the asp
his young his waters full his hand
and sounds of gentled glass.
Give me a neutraled opened key
and words from yours by you to me.
