The Way You Write

For Rosa Saba.

I love the way you write
as my eyes slowly rake
over the page, clutching
the curves and turns of each letter,
your charisma smeared
across each line
as your voice rings though my ears,
pulling me under.
There's that catch in my chest
as this feeling spreads, molding,
stretching, tugging my body forward
as if to embrace your poetry through the screen,
until I feel that I'm close enough
to touch you and capture some
small amount of your talent
and joy, because
you always seem to know
how to phrase it.