what to believe

almost everything reminds me of you
I see your face many times a day--
my heart leaps
and then it's someone else.

better with pure memory
than fickle reality.

lion's mane disarrayed on pillows,
hands interlocked on sheets,
and fixed blue smiling on me
stirs a warm upside down world
that owns the moment
just as it owns my heart.


* - ended up going with gustav klimt on this one; i like the ethereal feeling that this painting gives and was the reason it was selected. others considered: edgar degas and any of his bath scenes, woman by shashin, woman by amedeo modigliani, and woman kneeling by michael austin.