A Green Bench
for E.M.L.

not just about her,
they are as much about me,
my poems of us

makes me feel elegant,
possibility of our having an affair,
beauty and the beast

though the beast has a pen
is a poet, is a wordsmith

is ours a fair trade,
what she gives, what I give back

are we playing tennis
or are we playing squash


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2009
2:40 p.m. 14.05.09