geometry

legs swinging from
the top of the low wall
we make diamonds in the pavement
and i watch the sky
for clouds that look like mountains
and feel that there is no wind-
our movements hang
like silt underwater and
the sun in its stillness
casts golden motes
on the tips of our brown feet.

it is because you are a safe place
that i tell you about
the tiny things i see.

lightning

alone in my room at night
i imagine you
as storms pelt my windows
as lighting threatens the church tower
i imagine you out
on your roof, glorying
in rain magic
curling through the dark ends
of your wet hair, legs
spread wide in
a defiant stance

with lightning cracking purple
around you

alone in my room at night
i imagine welcoming you
with a blanket, safe
from the harsh winds.

lagrimas

only for you; tiny
raindrops glisten poised
on my eyelashes, they are
myself, my insides
coming out, overcoming reason
a dizzying wellspring burst suddenly
conjured from my heart
by that longing to combine
which is finally made
manifest as they trickle into
your pores and i sigh with
relief: we are together
you are in my arms.

awe

we hide in museums
softly giggling
in awe of sperm wales
in awe of amethysts, black holes
synthetic coral reefs the largest
oldest tree we look
at the painted moon,
the greatest detail in that hollow
place, we sit quietly underground
in awe of machines, in awe
of the smoky trails wandering
from our mouths,
reflected by the lake
we are in awe of each other.

ursa minor

the smallest nose
nuzzles me gently: ursa
minor, littlest bear you are
written in the stars you are
my magnetic north you are
the only place i can stand to be
in all my polar wanderings
all the loveless nights and
carelessnesses
bigger bears- you are the only one
who can melt my lonely
little heart, you are the only one
with your small warm nose
and wise old eyes, who knows
all the secrets of the stars
the wind and the trees.

Repulsion

heat between our shimmering backs
created by the angry negation of our polarities two
magnets drawn far apart
cometlike
to different orbitals
a mutual jettison of space waste accelerating
too fast for entropy or loneliness to catch
up with us we are screaming with delight
luxuriating in the speed of our separation
we are riding the frequencies of our screams
we have entirely forgotten one another
we have been annihilated by the blissful
shockwaves that repulsion creates
morphed by the excitement, we are smeared
and neutralized we hang starlike for an instantaneous six months
crystalline and beautiful we wonder
and slowly, hanging
we regain harmony and quietly our polarities tire
of the pretense that interference creates to remember
that once it was separateness that drew us together and it was not ourselves
nor the orbits we complacently trace but the false idolatry that made us think
we were the same

repulsive creature from whom we both fled.