hunger

first the tattoo then

the shaving my head

in your back yard

in plastic sunglasses 

it took three hellos

before you knew me

i wonder what i'll do

next just to scare you off

buy pornos at the corner

store and give them to you

like gifts or show up

drunk on your door step

wrap my arm around your

mother's waist and

kiss her in the kitchen

we saw a black bear

near telegraph cove 

last fall with wet hair

parted at the scars

it moved like hunger down

the bank to lie down sick 

in the gravel and roadside

not two hundred metres from there you 

pulled onto the shoulder and cried for an hour
cause you finally understood me