breathing easy

many times you slept
gently curled in my arms
breathing easy on the F line
speeding through dark watery tunnels
between that twenty four dollar island
and a cost of millions Prospect Park
we traveled to 15th street north
past nowhere, near everywhere
Sometimes you knitted pieces
to a long red scarf with faint traces
of your soul and your sweet perfume
symbol of a never to be broken bond
a perfect friendship circle of string
i admired your fingers and your toil
the love you transferred to each thread
and though time has swiftly melted
long days and bottomless empty years
I still see your every perfection
your every beautiful flaw
deeply hidden in a watery
secret place of timeless memory
and as I pause I sometimes think
maybe you were a mermaid
in a half forgotten dream