Heart Songs (in a time of war)

The splitting of our life

the negotiation
of heart songs

Marvin for me
Joni for you

A game of 'penny up the wall'
for Emily Dickinson

and a pitched scream
slammed door
raged hurricane
for that signed
Henri Cartier-Bresson
photograph

all these things
that glued us
are now
naked items
to be played and read

to be stared at
in new rooms
with each
others shadows
for company

you state that

'time will erode feeling
and that time
will create indifference'

but I know
you are gloating
from the perspective
of a winner

as in the end game
of every war
ever fought