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Poem #8: Get Out There

i set my keys on the table and remove my life
hang it on the hooks

in the washroom
i try to make my face attractive
and get my conviction together

she wants that kind of man
who does crosswords in ink
i’m still trying to get the words right

Poem #7: Fireplace

you wondered why her hands were so cold

that morning

it was summer

hot enough to wear

self-conciousness

out in the open

your eyes looked

like whatever season the year chose.

she reflected

whatever you seemed

but it was always

for some odd reason

vancouver weather inside you

catching many quiet axes 

in the bark of your heart

you are skinny but thick-skinned

and used to it

their smiles cut you

in places you can’t describe

you hope she 

doesn’t

feel lonely next to him: 

the closer she is, 

the farther away she feels from him, and from you

the lonelier the air wanders, 

the less her clothes fit nice

you hope she 

does 

feel lonely next to him

so she can fall 

with you

to sleep, 

in love, 

during autumn

the times when you fall the most

be your tree

shade 

and cover

ignited by the 

match 

you two might make,

her head fits between your chest 

and arm

the way a body curls into 

love

to feel

the fireplace 

you 

could be

with the axes 

piled high away from you

and nothing else.

Poem #6: Before You Go

you are philippine mango swell

i’ve pretended everyday of mine

is some abstract summertime

but you are concrete

after-rain smell

so now,

i will make funny faces

i will be your front doorstep the day you take off your braces

i promise you gondolas, and eiffel towers,

just to be the man you write home about

i’ve never been that

i want to cook you foods i can’t pronounce

and leave

enough-of-some-food-you-can-eat-when-i’m-not-around food in the fridge

                your memory smells like apple pie

                your favourite necessity

and hyperboles aside, we have never had a laughless day since start

we have a view,

watching this world fall apart

gauging each other’s faults,

i confessed my earthquakes to you

we crack each other open quietly but enough

like the crack of a door to hear the crickets

                i love how you slip in to me

                to introduce me to exclamation marks

i am sorry

trial and error’s the way i seatbelt certainty

but the world is not getting younger, and age is just a number

i skipped the first grade, proof i wanna skip the basics,

i wanna learn hard and fast, the same way we fell for each other

yet honestly,

i’m nervous when you read the travel section

how you tell me

you live best when you have something to look forward to

i’d like to be tomorrow

and on our slow days

we will make love like our parents passed away

you were the only person to find enough space between my chest and chainmail

to beat your heart into

i still wonder who would write their life with someone this pencil-thin

i want to go home to wherever you are

you will quiet life’s gnashing mouth

to remind me

food tastes better

with soft music

good company

and the travel section