Un autre monde

and so what if it was you

a naked heart in the rain

stuck in that liminal space

singing a name from before birth

our lives now half gone

remaining yet full of wonder

still I fixate as new words cauterize

as a day's memory shimmers like

a nickel at the base of the well

though we remain separate

inside the mosaic of the dream

dawn breaks like glass bottles

we find the sky lacerated

by the vicious tongue of time

& it is through falling ourselves

that we learn the sounds made

before water, the steam of bread

before the herb which lights

the limbic system

I sing the words now, the ones

I had promised you, I was always here

great teachers never say how dark dawn is

how a candle in the snow

across the empty universe

is extinguished by bodies breaking

disintegrating in the sound of touch

how we both longed for beauty

but persisted as shipwrecks

in forgetting the way blood leaves

like a cold hand parting

that last time & I would forgive you

nothing has been lost

there has been no cataclysm

the fountain rings with pride

how do you imagine

you heard my voice so clearly



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