Once you

Once you-
around, or close.
Now lost
in behind.
Or tucked out of sight
behind a shelf.
Slight and flat
like a forgotten cracker.

My mind
wants to borrow your smell.
My skin can’t produce it.
I smelled it
outside the bakery
in a flash.
where
does it live.
your heart’s bloody
iron can’t do.
Your body lives,
it wont show.
A fragrance, in sight.
gone.

Blossoms to be
taken and used up.
In apricot beds,
tiny buds
for bushy bees.
Honey made,
job’s never done.
Now green
fitted to the stalk.
Soon stable and grand
for the summer.