Deer Spotting

I have been dreaming this whole time
or at least
some days I wake up and look around only
to find that I don’t remember arriving here.

Photographs are never accurate are they
moments becoming tangible becoming
something all to themselves.

Moments are never singular when they are happening.

You look like somebody I have not yet met.
When we hold hands I can taste
you through my finger tips and still
one day I may forget
exactly how your face falls.

This will not make you less of you and
I'd like to say that I won't save the pictures
or your voice recordings.

These only help me to pretend
that there is some way of keeping although

the most important parts dissipate
like droplets of color in water
long before you've recorded the ripples.