Leave yourself here long enough
hang around under
the wheezing shadow my affections
implant slices of your clear skin
in my unremembered dreams
fend off the listless crescent night
and cast colour into everything

You did all this for me?
to be thrown out naked
into the thankless tundra of our bodies
to be kept in that little cellar of yearning
I keep in my heart’s heel

I can be sorry.