Bouncy ball lovers exploding in colors as they lean down over the pier move like the tide on an October night and they laugh till they run out of air the moon sets beneath the ocean line watch it go down down as their emotions start to rise far away sound of the waves unchosen their strides slowly they open, like arms that were folded like eyes that woke up in the sun cautious to feel, and anxious to heal this loneliness that had begun she fell in the bed in his arms they tumbled around their heads lost beneath eachothers hearts the walls were surrounded in unfinished art They fit together like love on a letter like tulips on a table for two and on that same day as she left for Santa Fe he said, "I'm rather crazy for you" and he brushed down his hair to one side and he went through the rounds of his knuckles popping from the left to the right he took out his canvas and painted blue-green lines oo oo oo