it is light it is how i write and write but that's the only word worthy of describing it is waking up in the middle of summer on your own time it is closing your eyes with the sun on your face comfort in blankets when safety is thousands of miles away free thinking and blushing and taking day-naps one thousand questions with repeated answers it is smiling so hard your face hurts clean sheets and sitting in empty fields it is car rides with the windows down the way the moon reflects across water when the sky is deep purple it is dancing in the refrigerator light with no socks on at three am to a quiet song we hum the next day it is coffee in the morning alcohol that stains your brain and makes you feel like you're underwater it is the first time we touch with enough electricity to power a city for a week it is the weightlessness of your laugh and messy bedhead it is the way distance disintegrates like poetry and your promises in prose always on my mind in my words it is that thing people are writing about when they say, "when you break my heart, it will hurt like hell"