Happy People 1

I gave her half-hearted head
In  the space between
The  blankets and the bed
And in the falling dark
The sick filled up my head
And  then my heart
When  I went home
I watched a movie about Siberia
The  cold reached in

She was just like me
With expectations that
This world could never meet
I  mean that when I think of love
I think of stillness
That's ashamed and virginal:
Pussy willow in a vase
Star-colored aments that will stay
The same always

When I think of you
I think of you a long way off
When I think of you I think of "you" I think of no one