Timothy Liu
Sad Sonnet Done
Sometimes a halo, sometimes
armored with an electron field
of gnats at sundown, the gas
mower enlarging your carbon
footprint by at least two sizes
and the kid won't yet be grown
for a few seasons more. Please
know I kept the cigarette butts
you flung off the back porch
for as long as I possibly could
until a fuzzy beard of mold
overtook that vodka-soaked
memorial—my lips touching
down where yours had been.