love poems for him

You are like me, you will die too, but not today:  
you, incommensurate, therefore the hours shine:  
if I say to you “To you I say,” you have not been  
set to music, or broadcast live on the ghost  
radio, may never be an oil painting or
Old Master’s charcoal sketch: you are
a concordance of person, number, voice,
and place, strawberries spread through your name  
as if it were budding shrubs, how you remind me  
of some spring, the waters as cool and clear
(late rain clings to your leaves, shaken by light wind),  
which is where you occur in grassy moonlight:  
and you are a lily, an aster, white trillium
or viburnum, by all rights mine, white star  
in the meadow sky, the snow still arriving
from its earthwards journeys, here where there is  
no snow (I dreamed the snow was you,
when there was snow), you are my right,
have come to be my night (your body takes on  
the dimensions of sleep, the shape of sleep  
becomes you): and you fall from the sky
with several flowers, words spill from your mouth
in waves, your lips taste like the sea, salt-sweet (trees  
and seas have flown away, I call it
loving you): home is nowhere, therefore you,  
a kind of dwell and welcome, song after all,  
and free of any eden we can name
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