December 22, 2020

After

(c) 2013

We touch and are infinite.

 

And the moment after—

 

end tables darken, flesh recedes

to mahogany and form. Walls

like madly growing vines shoot

up from the floor.

 

As space reassembles, solid and rigid,

we notice the chill from the window,

snowfall, the graying shoulders of the day.

 

My back is cold. 

Time no longer timeless.

 

Oh, how fortunate, those gods—

 

Within your arms,

before the world returns.