Valentine's Poem

It isn't exactly traditional, but here is a poem for Valentine's Day (more or less)

Does A Love Poem Need to Be About Love?

Or dusty smells

of ruptured leaves

The crackling

of thin tinder

Or salty mist

clashing with froth

Sand infernos

drawn back to their home

Or air trimmed thin

by the glacier's edge

Lichen surviving

in a range of centuries

Or the baby's cry

echoing through adolescence

Mirrored in a father's face

fading from importance.