13 september

and from the notice came a box
out of which grew a smell
fresher than cardboard or even styrofoam
not the biofriendly kind --
won't melt on your tongue
in case you thought to try --
an the air opened wider
split with evergreen taste
blue ceramic hypothetical foundation
color of a dream of crayon
sky melted to a pool to feed
and still we wait and listen
growing to know one another --