belly button

you and me the way we

think may change the
color of our sheets unlike
the coral green they
were

when you and me we
acquired them

then

the sky a different hue than

the one she wore in 1822

before the war
how blue

the sound of the sea unlike what our mother knew through her shells

fathers buried
in sand the beach stretches
a band

me and you
imperceptible our teeth and
bellies move like gelatin

foam at the mouth
relentless the wind
the age will define us

at last

the sun dies every day
how sad

yesterdays
todays
tomorrow

the belly buttons
hollow

how smitten we are with
our world in the end