Living with You
HOW DO I
get closer to you
and not fall under?
I write you with my mouth
shoulders and hands
the paragraph is numberless
dark text lies between the stars,
planets churn to gloss,
shadows lay down on branches
every sophisticated instrument
evolves to
out-of-focus
the consciousness of this room
bares
time to us
your breath enumerates you
chains of forgetting, silver-
worded with spaces between,
lay across me
I come to you forgetting
in order to come back
I forget
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