silver springs - 2004 remaster
give me just a chance (was i such a fool?)
when i dream / i kiss your knuckles and chase after chubby-legged children through meadows filled with bluebirds and bucks / the heat is the worst it’s ever been / but we are surrounded by the blooming green of summer
you are as striking as the day we met / a fire burning inside you / roaring with the ambition to be loved like a phenomenon / so i pull you in and start singing fleetwood mac while we sway beside our gingham blankets / i remind you the world does not rest on your shoulders / come on, baby, just dance a little / your smile is remarkable enough for me
i want to tell you to come home / i know we are both too proud to beg / you are so used to saving others / let me take care of you / i go to sleep each morning praying i might wake to find you in my bed / murmuring my latest poem / while you read jane austen / and later we talk about baldwin on the couch / stealing sweet lip grazes during the breaks in conversation
the curse of a poet is that you really only fall in love once / so i will continue fantasizing about a world where i am back at your side / my face always turned toward you / humming the 2004 remaster of “silver springs” under my breath / my hands itching to show you a butch’s love