Since winter

4.6.15

I've developed the kind of body that looks strong.
People glance at me and think she means it.
I still read my ex-girlfriend's sign
in horoscopes.
This week, let yourself bloom.
The first crocus is purple.
I used to wear this plain purple dress that she loved

for the way it could be lifted.
This spring there's someone I'm trying not to want,
which is a good story.
When his body's close, I see the jagged
silhouettes of palm trees,
night lightning without rain.

Abdomen, anterior forearm,
latissimus dorsi.

After the seder,
after the long drive home
through fog, I sit on my bedroom floor
and smooth dust from the flat tongues
of orchid leaves.
It was cold,
and still barely is not.