Soapbox Poet

stream of consciousness 3 (a poem)

you make me want to write poetry

in the ways that allow looped letters

to bleed into each other, pushing

and pulling at vowels that paint pictures

of how I see the sunrise and how you

experience life. I want to experience

more of life with you in it- the constants

and the consonants will petition

with their wood hands and sign our names.

If I could string words along I’d travel

on them like a train, only to get to you.

Only to write to you. Only to write for you.