My Albatross

On the mountain coast,

Grass & arctic wings.

You clicked in my ear.

A three-meter hug.

A bobble of gay song

& battle grass. You fell

Like a lily. Timid

We would never match.

Fifty years is a life-

Time I’d ask for again.

Just to see you bow,

Our anchor on the prairie

Lands. Remembering the ice,

How you licked our lonely away.