What is an asterisk ** -h-e-r-e    or     -t-h-e-r-e *
only little stars suspended in an endless string of space
I wonder what is between them, in the molecules where they don't collide.
Isn't that the crux?
The question we must ask?
Our touch only as momentous as the reason we were not touching moments before?
How can we be lovers
if we do not know the ways we fight gravity
to lie together.

dash- (I've run away from my heart before)
h-e-r-e- (have another, says my sorry head,)
t-h-e- (dirt runs down the drain, but the scars always)
r-e- (accuse).

here or there,
little stars dash to hold hands
over the dips of dark matter;
these things between us.