Bill Costley

To carolin

Everytime I see you
my heart explodes
like a tiny balloon
stuck in my chest,
inflated by love.
I love you now;
I loved you then;
I loved you when
I didn't know why I did.
I loved you for all the reasons
I'd understood then
& for all the others now;
& you knew why:
You're distractible,
you always said,
ruefully, ruefully.

(21 JAN 07, 1:26pm PDT, Santa Clara)