I Knew I Loved You Before

For Mya

 

I Knew I Loved You Before

 

we read each other’s minds that

time we tripped acid and dressed up

like Pocahantas and Alice in

Wonderland because hey why the

f**k not when even Pink Floyd hurt

 

our ears and the only thing that

didn’t was the music we made

so I played Rachmaninoff on the

piano with the missing keys that

we got from goodwill and you got

 

out a blank canvas and painted

the notes as if they’d taken form

in the air and by the end we were

both in tears because hey Prelude

in C minor can do that to you

 

I said it reminded me of Anna Karenina

and Tolstoy but you said it was like a

creaking bridge and we spent the next

twelve hours lying naked in the light

of the moon not saying a word.