i like your face little bird,

you are so damned cute 

god should be reprimanded.

 

and you were sitting pretty

on a short cherry wood staircase

playing a guitar, and

 

the steps were an oiled, pine scented 

sheen, not a bit of dust, polished clean, 

like the heart i’d have saved for you forever.

 

it doesn’t matter that i don’t remember

the songs you played, i didn’t know you

and i would have run away with you then.