4-letter

Your name, that word
4 letters like others
but I hold it soft
without breaking it against my teeth
I lay it on that last light
the daily mail.
I say it soft
for all the hard world
to collapse at
all the hard world you're looking at
and asking for just a 4-letter space.
Your name, that word
held like breath
then said
rolls those mountains into your sea
a soft place
to hold all
of you not said in 4 letters.

dec 15