i miss you profoundly
is that so hard to ponder
amongst your sermons
today my cat died. the first of many
& i wondered what verse
to use & so i thought of you, beloved
seventeen years of my life
wrapped into a being the size of my arm
her blue eyes his not yours
the blue of your eyes is deeper than my mind allows
how strange to distinguish
how strange to remember
how twenty nine years collapse
at the moment of a dead cat's life
what verse my love, what verse