gave me a staple pair of jeans
wrapped my legs around you
never let you go
I said
stay in my heart
as I gave the key
cut only for you
and you turned me around like an hourglass - shook me
like a snow-globe - made me smile like the pictures you paint

you said
I always will
and my heart pounded half in fear
but half in the certainty of my two times tables
of English rain in every season
of the movement of our hands

I hold the shape of your heart in my head
as you cup my breast, your mind at rest