Love letter

Leaves paper thin:envelope of last year’s lovedaguerreotype of ‘’might have been’’.A ball gown in translucent greensilk so sheer it cleaves to skinthat ring of gold on wedding daylost summer sunlight in your hair;now autumn wind brings memoriesforgotten things you promised me.Leaves paper thin:my make believe.Reread the lines you wrote for meand down through all these changing yearsI kept a glimpse of what we’d beenlike sun pressed flower our kisses skimbetween these flakes of autumn leavesregret that we will never bequintessential poetry.