teenage love poem

earth travails
a mist was driving down
look back with longing eyes and know that i will follow
passing through huddled and ugly walls
this is the ship of pearl
there were three in the meadow by the brook
the little white prayers
in your flight
did you ever see an alligator
their beautiful hair
when i was a boy at college
why do you always stand there shivering
in your arms was still delight
i walk down the garden paths