Poetry

I thought about two things today

I thought about poetry

and I thought about you

and extensions of these two things

like, poetry about you

poems that you'd fit into

poetics that we enacted last night with such passion

and where that might in fact lead to

now that last night is through

and i sit here alone this afternoon

and i don't know where you sit or with whom

i thought of poetry i might compose

and where this might go between us now and how slow

i thought about not thinking about you

but that didn't seem to go like i wanted it to

so, i wrote a new poem

and you were my subjet

i wrote a true ode

and you were the subject

i wrote and i wrote

i thought about you and i thought about poems

i thought about these two subjects

Tanya Davis