Persimmons

for Ava

I give my simple love, true to the bone,
and cover you with persimmon kisses,
mushy and wet with lust like the sky tonight,
its ten thousand maple leaves fallen,
raked, and spread around the blueberry fence
that divides me from the rest of the world.
The persimmons are now bread, but you remain
in my huge heart where the world is tiny.