April 26th, 2008 – July 7th, 2010
they used to call you sun-dragon.

but our relationship was bookended
by two disasters.

a panic attack
on the twenty-second
anniversary of a meltdown.

and yet another
on the day you
almost drowned
a second time.

it was over long before that,
but still i felt
that you and i
had a connection
with the wind.