The Very Days Before Us

These days
their buttons on both sides
 the hair curls in her eyes
hat lilting to one side
and his eyebrows meet just a little

to the sun behind the smoke
of clouds
during a cafe meet
with colored in eyebrows so brown
and light lips
a man's big eyes behind the counter
and a girl with black hair so short

missed panes of glass
in the head of a girl's brown hair
curled at the ends
 and a wrinkled, blue-eyed
sharpster, the owner

mmmhmmm
frustration at oneself
held in
held up into
like a bodice
and a veil and a hat
and little kitten heels
under the big hoop skirt
it's new

cut outs of today
I wish I could cry to
so present
it hurts
to be given presents

the difference between an
edited word and a flow
like a period, doesn't stop
but goes.