Thursday, September 28, 2017

Asymmetries by Rae Armantrout

I’m thinking about you and you’re humming while cutting a piece of wood.
I’m positive you aren’t thinking about me which is fine as long as you
aren’t thinking about yourself. I know and love the way you inhabit
this house and the occasions we mutually create. But I don’t know
the man you picture when you see yourself walking around
the world inside your head and I’m jealous
of the attention you pay that person
whom I suspect
of being devious.


This made me chuckle 
remembering my former self 
thinking thoughts like this
about the you you used to imagine
inside your head
when we were both being devious
to ourselves and each other