She Says

Let's just say
that the magazines he reads
are self-help books
featuring really pretty women.

He Says

In the end,
it figures,
the greatest threat to mankind
is premature balding.

A Dream

It was a mossy evening
and we could all but hold
cold, grey, bitter hands.

It was a windless moment,
and the one fort did,
as only lonely forts can,
nothing but look away.

Us

You are
a female assumption:
describing vaguely
an obvious could-have-been.

I am
a father's memory:
regretting once
the seven certainties.