Numbed in this climate
I melted you away
You dripped from my veins
Like so many other
Yet I dream these minutes
Counting my 30 days
Like rain
Hunched in a compromising position
As you peal my petals
October was a minesweeper
But now my November
Brings hopes of autumn
And goodwill
guiding my velvet steps
To oceans bled with
Buildings I built in former times
Haunted I spread my loins
Into this gravestone
Nipped by the chin
Killing my dream
Begun where the race begun