brass

kissing you in cottonmouth 
tulips in denim 
sweet tooth sugar down blouse 
speaking parseltongue on striped linen 

my sister prayed for your arrival 
trumpeted open a gated promise 
disney eyes and purple-petaled revival 
veterans of the milky way office 

i call you in love 
and you respond in voice and rise 
below as so above 
never i beg to be part of your life 

kitkats and hockey 
reading you under black bamboo 
survived the mundane and motley 
swooning over a stanley cup with you