Poem: all the mountains in a little stone

 

Alain Delon & Romy Schneider

Oh, I could fall in love with you,  

reading out verses, trying to keep my focus

on the words, not on your freckles or your roses.

 

Oh, I could fall in love with you

when I saw your eyes up close

a lapis lazuli blue

feathered with black lashes

a pretty girl you’d make too.

 

Oof, if I fell in love with you,

I’d be a poor haggard fool,

like loving my daddy

he’s gone in the summer,

I’d cut my nested hair

and he’d ask

“who are you?”