Reid Park, February, 2012

To my first Rebound Romance:

I fell into an obsession with you in Hour One

Of our Eight Hour date. Reid Park in February

2012, Tucson, bright green grass rolled out

For us to explore under come hither sun.

You straddled the park bench like a baseball player,

Leaning forward onto thin legs, fingers knotted,

Curved back aged in cheap whiskey, you

Were never young like Nate Ruess said we are.

I heard your childhood ended in addiction so when

The Bar Closes, You Feel Like Falling Down,

I wanted to carry you home again, and again, and again.

I couldn’t stop thinking of you! Between Hour Eight

At milky black Gates Pass, and the next text message

In the morning where you interpreted my dreams but not

As the warning signs they should have been. How! Was this

Obsession and not love? Isn’t this what Nicholas Sparks

Tried to warn the world about? No, it was fixation, taking

Control of me in prodigious pelvic thrusts. Once, just for the sensation,

I clenched my fist around a piece of ice until it melted into

Great rivers streaming down my arm, over the dog bite scar.

Has your life frozen back together since you melted away?

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