The Letters N and D

It is 19 degrees outside

Chance of precipitation is 100 percent snow

It falls softly

Like the way your hair falls atop your HEAD

Like the way my ears make out the pinks and the REDS in the

Golden dialects of love in your tone

And for once on this stupid holiday, I am not alone

But better yet I’d like to rearrange the days

Switch Saint Valentine and put him in Saint Nick’s place because

Everyday with you has been like Christmas

At the beach

Because in the 19 degree weather,

The months have accumulated and formed the sun

The rays of warmth have soaked into my skin

And the dance of the butterflies have begun

Chemically speaking we have chemistry

Because our lips react the way a magnet does to steel and

Every kiss sends chills to my heart causing it to

Carve “L’amour” against its skin

Beating its fist against its cage like

A French revolt like

Everything’s in black and white like

All I feel is

Love

And I love

When we run out of things to say and

Small talk gets awkward like

“There’s a big elephant in the room” but there really isn’t

It’s just a little white lie,

an ivory excuse to keep you around even longer

And to keep the distance short and simple because

Simple enough, I don’t want to be too far from you.

I don’t want Point E to be half way across the map from Point Me and

Even though I know that somehow we’d somehow find each other within the next

Rest stop and coffee run because my

Tongue sometimes gets nervous

And it slips back behind my teeth and I’m

Back at Point A with nothing to say but

“Fuck this!” because I HATE

When our eyes meet for the very last time and I’m forced to say

Goodbye

Even though it’s not really a goodbye

It’s a see ya later and I’ll call you in five minutes

And if you don’t pick up I know it’s because

You tried calling me at the same time

It used to be 19 degrees outside and all I’d see was white

Now

Its 19 degrees outside but all I see is the pink plus red equation

Where you graph Point N next to Point D because

I’m too cheap to hire a seamstress to stitch it to my heart but it still reminds me of how much I

love every fiber of your being

All the tiny invisible vessels underneath your skin

And every visible vein in your arm reminds me that

The love of my life is not just a figment of my imagination

Instead

He’s met my all of my expectations

I know I don’t expect MUCH but

Being ENOUGH and beyond makes every hello that much better

And every goodbye that much worse

I don’t know where I’d be without the letters

N and D

But I’m glad I know where I’m going because it is

19 degrees outside

Chance of precipitation is 100 percent snow

It falls softly

Like the way our fingers get tangled together so easily

Every nerve bending

Wrapping around the opposite

Cells squishing to fit

Fighting to breathe

Muscles contracting

Muscles constricting

Like the way the lines on our own hands should tell us how long we should love each other

Like the way I hate how we both have long fingers and twice as long arms but our

Short tongues constrict us from reaching forever

It falls softly

Like the way my eyes visualize you in your state of sleep

Your soft snores traveling from Point E to Point Me through a stupid telephone

It falls softly

Like the way the

Letters N and D bond so sweetly

Like the way I

Fell in love with you

It is 19 degrees outside

Chance of precipitation is 100 percent snow

It falls softly