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How you arrived, when I noticed there were more fireflies like the soft glow of childhood rising sun

I used to fall asleep on his couch Eye open, vivid daze of morning spent scanning the room for clues There are no photos of us No proof! no emergence without containment So, I swallow the lumps in my throat, let them fall freely beat the drums in our chest Your soft breath keeps rhythm,…

These fingers knead your thighsroused skin, yielding to pressureI am reminded of rippling lakes, diffuse cloudsof spacetime, physics that humble vanityCurves and auras, radiation: makings of pliant bonesI am reminded of that Bernini sculptureHow do you keep finding me?(you would know it if you saw), and oh,how soft it must’ve become, that lifeless block of…

Will this heat burn off?My chest billows, lungs stealing from damp summertime breezewelcome; it has looked like rain for daysthe sultry air between us betraying uneasy breathsI will drink from clouds should they draw any closertheir water infuse til they are light and I am heavyYou shimmer in the rainsink seeds deeper within the soil…

Bathing in sunbeams radiated from youththat kindled countless autumnscome-and-gocolors, trick-or-treaters(I gave the lollipop to a lone zombieand you weren’t there to see)beaming through silver clouds,the whispers of tree branches    Fan mebetter yet, nudge me toward the big oakthe one like that one from The Notebook seasons breathe deeplythis air cools my tonguesparkled creek water