What is a new poem?

I want to tell you about The Long Emergency 

And talk to you of the vanishing bees

Just as I want to touch the crease and wrinkles 
On the sides of your eyes

The slack aging skin of your jaw

And take you inside me

And hear of your protests at the Nevada Test Site

And listen to you tell me of prison

And inhale your chemistry lessons

Just as I tell you to look in my eyes

And speak of the two children in red

(Our children)

Each book I read has a reference

To the sea where you are now

Each day I move closer

To the light beneath the water

At night understanding more

Yet you do not know my days!

Or see my words!

You make love to others--

Do they read of the end of the world, too?

Do they read of the heat and the tar?

Do they read of the explosions in the desert?

Only I can know

As I go deeper into the carbon

And the fossil

And the shale

Who you are