IF WE BOTH FALL ASLEEP TOO SOON by Colin James

Our suitcase is offering no receipts
whether carried loosely or on shoulders.
The estuary is almost never unexceptional.
Just like the lovers who
armed with chagrin,
measuring the glow again
return to it.

Colin James has a book of poems, Resisting Probability, from Sagging Meniscus Press. He lives in Massachusetts.