Pilgrim

Love’s right now and not
forever: she hates it
when I said that. Because

the muted space, and
grim, glum thoughts:
a baseball,

a necklace,
something cheap but contingent with
the memory. So

whatever happened
to that stupor, the boy revealed
in mean streaks?

He lost a pound, shed
a shack, left her for
the land without objects, in pursuit

of real dimes.