{i'd like to write you}

form: poem
completed: early february 2005
notes: part of a valentine's day present a couple years ago

I'd like to write you
a Valentine's poem: with
steady lines of undying love
and quiet innuendo
so as to win your heart
(if I haven't already done so).
And you would open up
your letter box on the Day of Love
to find my note --
written in red-gold, swirling
characters; with tiny
hearts dotting the "i"s
and the soft scent of perfume --
and you would smirk
at my immaturity.
And perhaps years from now
I'd be searching through
your desk, looking for
the electric bill, which is
always overdue, and I
would find that poem
and laugh.
And I would read it to you
melodramatically before the fire,
And we'd remember it all.