Scores of Assumptions

to exist entails

                        deterioration and loss

our hearts tirelessly

                        insist their ways and 

ache for

                        the same thing

love like a religion

                         i once had

the unheard of

                         is likewise essential

as uttered words

                         we are but a photograph

certainly fading

                         absolutely still

thus far        

                     kept




For Jov