Valentine's Day

I wonder why we need 
this day this single red jot
when each day all day long
my heart bows like
an elephant to receive 
its riders when each day 
the sun burns burns 
burns its hydrogen rose for my 
face when each day the
mitochondria light
their tiny bonfires in
the smallest parts of me
and dance around them
like satyrs. if I am ever
emptied of kisses bury
me for I am dead. if my
hands fail to imagine 
run of jawline curve of hip if
my sundial eyes fail to track 
the angle of my longing
across this rich earth if I cease
planting flowers and lie
down in the wasteland
of giftshops in the valley
of busted sternums please
let me save a prayer one
frail poem a benediction to 
you who will arrive
and murder this foolish day
with a kiss that will not end.