sunspot sunrise sunshine moonshine i lick you off my lips like strawberry pineapple grape juice a fine wine that i’ve never drunk.
asteroid belt orion’s belt daddy’s belt i am opening the door a crack for you only to slam it in your face—i am waiting for you to knock to pound your fist against the gate to break your hand on the wood i am waiting for you to say that you love me and i am waiting for myself to believe it completely (i think you do but i am still afraid you might leave me)
((jupiter has 67 moons and i think that i might be each and every single one of them)).
oort cloud smoke cloud the burning ash of my father’s lit cigar flicking onto my hands i am awake at night and thinking about how you no longer taste like lung mouth kidney cancer. my grandfather almost died of prostate cancer my friend is dying of brain cancer my father will probably die of liver cancer there is not enough space in the cosmos for all of us, is there? … God?
meteorite meteoright i am trying to sleep without your face in the back of my neck hand on the back of my hand leg tangled around the back of mine i am trying to telepathically whisper my secrets into your ears but the only problem is that i have not yet mastered this form of communication— i think that everything would be so much easier if i just didn’t feel.
language poem I wrote for my poetry portfolio last semester.