Kallie

We know each other
from other times, many 
when our forms were different
but our lives and paths intersected

In this one, you are a beautiful
black dog, and I, a silly brown girl

and even though the now asks of us to be apart
I feel your love despite the distance 
and know you feel mine from afar.

my humanness makes me weep uncontrollably, 
craving your familiar and soft-touch
your gentle lean onto my womb and sometimes forehead
and your kind eyes so easily peering into my core

and also the goddess in me
knows that distance, time and space
are merely toys that I can play with, 
make or break at a whim or vision

so Kallie, dear one,
I see your goofy smile and also cannot
I can feel your softness and also cannot
I miss you and also don’t
I crave you and also don’t
we live afar and also don’t.

This perfectly paradoxical 
long-distance relationship 
is real and ethereal
bathings us in love
both vacant and thriving
deep inside our bones.