For [Artreture](http://artreture.tumblr.com/) I wanted to come with ghosts to your geek palace in the sun. I had thought, perhaps, I could descend from the mountaintop with bent lips to knock fiercely at your door, where you'd be waiting with cheese curls and brandy. In my dark heart, I knew together we'd prevent the cruelty of April and agree to measure life in freeform salutations (coffee spoons left to other, finer minds). In that short space, between the kitchen and the porch, we'd go without [capitalizations], have laughter beyond [punctuations]. But it's not as if things come to be in such ways, or, really if they ever come to be at all-- Instead, my descension came and went totally without firestorms, I rode the Tram down and across to reach you above the bakeries in the Paris dawn and you were there with coffee fingertips and we sat in awkward quiet, drawn through into the sun, but oddness hardly overwhelms: I smile, you laugh. Somewhere a curtain falls.