when i think of you and my mind wanders through all that we have shared i think that the birds that have flown into my garden and the butterfly that dips its wings over each flower; each has moved the very same air that travels slowly east toward you. all of it drifts through the universe over my ocean and  your forest and the other side of the mountain . you breathe in the dust i breathed out. and so a little of me stays in you.