PEBBLES AND POLLYWAGS

and in the woods
by the pond, where the pollywags frantically scatter from your tossed pebbles
you tell me about the many species of trees surrounding us
oak
birch
muscle wood.
and we debate the merits and faults of man and science

deep in conversation.

I looked
I looked into your eyes
and tried with all my might
but squeezing juice from a lemon that is all too dry
I felt nothing.