I will leave this place for good
reason in my urgency you’ll say
I was a dream and I was
asleep before I love you
our ancestors were still
things in this place demand
my color like blood
around a loose tooth I can pull
myself from it
allow me to hunger
my belly is tired of being
emptied with you
in the damp with you
earth that made
you and I shape it
Let me know your
head as grass grown
so long sing me
the past I’ve grown
when its time to sleep
who needs a body
sing me so I’m too large
to inhabit even if my legs hurt
tell me somewhere we are
ghosts untethered somewhere
we are each other’s children
raise me to hold you
near the inner fire
tell me we will find joy
filling our pockets
we are meant to be
weighed down
by the river we will
never know if the sun speaks
only that we are
alone and waiting
only that we stretch
toward the sky
