To say two

To say
we are connected is
to say
that twelfth street runs from
where I turn off
past your boyfriend's house
with the truck
parked outside
and through

the house where I grew up
across from
the house I was first kissed
past my coworker's
and his wife's swelling belly
on my red wagon route
to school
and your house is the
house of
a childhood friend
that wasn't
where just this week
I learned to ride
without handlebars
tar and roadrash immediate
in the shutter of wrists on asphalt
and slow drag of adrenaline
and where I walked drunk in
highschool coaxing
your arms into my coat

but to say
this is a coincidence
and a bike route.