Venn Diagram

I have lost you to sleep again

Sleeping as we do on opposite sides of a venn diagram

I read the time in shadows on the wall

The shards of light

Through the slats on your window

I ease myself from under your languid arm

I fumble on my boots and hear you breathe through your alarm

I disarm it for you, you rarely hear it anyway

I wouldn't want it to intrude upon your dream

School bell ring messing up the play

A note, penned clumsily in this century's type-ruined hand

Saying gone down the shops for a walk I'll bring back some sandwiches

And then I kiss your face

The black and the blue

I tie it into my laces, I don't want the wander blocking up the view

I stumble out into the afternoon

Still salty from drink and the late night pool

I'll be gone an hour at most

And you will be more diagonal

And I've a head on me in the post, I know, a castle swallowed in the swell