LOVER

Lover

Wishes in the room painted red

and black the room in red

light with bowed

particle board ceiling

attic bowing back

into wishes from the Jasmine ashes 

the Jasmine ashes 

the western wind

the air mattress

is failing us

but we persist

against the cold

with the space

heater that looks

like a baby amplifier

and it does amplify

our heat together

in the attic

painted red and

black by my

sister-in-love

long ago

in wishes that

my brother would

come back. But

now it's us

here in the

bowed room drinking

pink wine from

a box – black

trees cut the

pink sky and

when we dream

we dream of

green rushing back

in slapping wet

charges of fat

green leaves

to our trees