Broken when the US mail chokes how
my letters take so much time is it there yet
read it immediately did you read it right away
I wonder and I wonder if you wonder if
I read yours as quickly for we are so far
away so letters that take forever to connect
us see I run my finger over your lines and dream
how drowned looking up at wavering surfaces under
a bright moon sunk in the scent of your perfume
and imagine your tongue back then so taste saliva
sealing you in my head in a way so away
from me with what I dared more to write I don’t
know if you understand if I understand you
oh why weren’t cell phones around when I needed
them to love you so much the right way I could not
afford such a loss my heart breaks, at all of
that mystery of questions unraveled the wrong
way so steep a cost my or our questions forever
unanswered and my pen stilled for reasons I do
remember is why I cry and ramble us still so on and on
Lanning Lee 