She comes as an oyster pail — He comes as a lawyer’s bodkin

She is fundamental and simple yet effortlessly versatile — She is quaint and charming

He is determined and shrewd, he is physically striking — He is token and antiquated.

She waves at him with her flaps — He’ll pin them if he has to

— Makes him wonder if she’s worth that —

He pecks his way toward her — dotting a trail as goes — she freezes her flaps

— She folds them and shuts them sealed tight —

He bounces and leaps up at her flaps — He lands

He penetrates her paper walls — She churns around all her contents

He wishes to grab hold and take her away — She wishes she was stronger

He is a cyclops — She is a sea nymph.

She becomes a key envelope — He becomes an India tag

She lies flat on a mahogany desk — Her lungs breathing slow and listless

He sits in an ashtray amidst rubber bands and paper clips — He is the only of his kind.

He twirls his batons, drumming the ashtray  — She responds curling her lip

— Makes him wonder if she knows he’s trying —

He twists his batons — He rips off the rubber bands — He bends down the paper clips

— He leaps from the ashtray, still twisting, twirling his batons–

She drops her lip – She inhales, she opens wide

He hovers over, into her landing — She exhales and closes her lip

She auto-adheses — He suffocates

He was not a real god — She was never the moon.

She becomes a roll of masking tape — He becomes a bulldog clip

She is a utilitarian, she is expedient — She is benign

He is reserved, he is exacting — He is tenacious.

She feels him — She’ll give him all she has, because she wants to

— Makes him thoughtless, as he cannot know that —

She bites the floor and runs rolling free — She strips to her core — it rolls away and disappears

— He bends down, he eats her face —

He bites and grips her tightly — He begins twisting, rolling in place

She peels up from the floor, sticking back into her tacks

— He vines her into a braid —

She ropes in through his swivel — He holds his bite still regardless

He is the blueprint — She was remodeled