Eidolon

I want to wake you
with a kiss

Bring you to the patio

where breakfast waits

Feed you strawberries,

blueberries, compliments.

I want to take you

by the hand

Walk you to the beach

where waves wait

Give you an ocean,

the sun, my heart.

I would love you—

I would love you so easily
if you were real.


(From the book Selected Poems 2004-2007)