75 sunrises ago you didn’t even exist
and then on the 240th night of this year
you appeared out of nowhere
and supposedly on this day
Herschel discovered a new moon of Saturn
and exactly 4 hours and twenty minutes into
my exposure to your essence
it felt official already
like the Manhattan murders that made the Miranda Rights
and now every half a second
that I spend in your arms is etched in a historical archive
like riots in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention
and I’m convinced god is a formula
a cosmic wind
that took exactly 39 years
longitudinally speaking
to swirl my chemical dust
into your brain wave
when the Eastern Orthodox celebrate St Hermes…