What do you think
when you touch her hair
or kiss her flesh
and call her baby
while she sings
the blues?
What do you think
when she worries
that to touch a heart
not yours
is to tease
or to spread
her heart too thin
she will fade
from all
and turtle-up
as she does?
What do you think
when she's doin'
what she needs to do
not to think of you?
