Two-Pack Solitaire

That hand of yours represents
An elegant route

Snowed-

Out
Where sleeves come from

Dummy

(I only want you
To love me & you)

Like a perfectly potholed surface

We are
Or a cup of wine

Crushed

Sometimes lovers lie
Together

Sometimes a lay is all
We’re good for

Mark Yakich
Poem is reprinted from Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross (National Poetry Series, Penguin 2004).