for g.p.
- when I think of you, when I think of you,
- my mind wanders down some trail.
- I try to catch up to it to make it focus on you
- but it’s intent on the larger picture.
- A vista emerges around a bend
- when I think I am thinking of you.
- I cannot quite comprehend the meaning of you.
- when I think of you my mind takes a hike
- and when I think of you I find delight in thoughts
- that are peripheral to you—
- cafes and traditional breakfasts,
- a young boy with a beautiful mother, who dies before she ages,
- or a dog named skratz runs by—
- and once more I think of you
- when I think I am thinking of you
- but you are gone over my mind’s horizon.
- so when I think of you
- I remember seeing a deer once
- bend its sincere, petite head in a stream of clear mountain water
- unconcerned that I was watching,
- and I think that was you.