[(symbol)’s really beautiful. When (symbol)’s standing in the trees]

’s really beautiful. When  ’s standing in the trees
and thinks nobody sees whose.  ’s like a stag.
Which sounds silly but  is. The way the light shines

on whose. The way it bounces off whose hair
like spray from the sprinkler. And   doesn’t know.
Because  ’s looking somewhere else.

Maybe up at a bird?       I was standing
and turned back because I heard
                                               whose whistling.

thought I wasn’t listening.
                                                wasn’t thinking of me.
 was looking at a bird

who was sitting in the tree
and looking back at whose.
                                               If whose shirt was off  ’d

have been dappled golden by the sun
coming through the leaves.   didn’t notice me
watching whose without whose shirt on.

                                                was standing in the forest
                                               and the sun was coming
                                               through the trees and covering whose.

 glowed.
I knew  ’d be warm if I walked up and
touched whose. And probably not mad.
 

                                               ’s like something in a movie
                                               or like a book we’d read in summer by the pool.
 

 didn’t see me looking
because   was so peaceful
staring at the bird.

*Title should read: 
’s really beautiful. When  ’s standing in the trees