Red Runners, Soup

Light-crossing Michael Redhill

"I fear love's arrival,
but if love comes for me,
I will raise my heat-stricken
head
to be kissed.
I will open my
doors, and lay down
red runners along my hallways. I will
keep soup on my stove, bring air
into my rooms and sleep on the floor.
I will happily forget my life if love
comes for me. If love remembers me."

-- from "Heat Wave II"