En Route to My Lover I Am Detained by Too Many Cities and Human Frailty

Damn these damn

hours between me,

you. Cities and deserts

and hours and hours that widen

like dreams. And dreams that narrow

like bridges. And seconds

endless as all of Texas

lethargic and thick

under the dogday heat.

Hurry.

What matters is to be

inside the prayer of your body,

beneath the wings of your eyes,

the chuparrosa hummingbird being

in the man flower of your

sex.