Bright red flowers lush against the sidewalk, waiting for someone to pick them, tuck them behind their ear
Sleep was impossible with the memory of you curled next to me like a semicolon, legs tangled under the blankets --
My fear of god is not because I fear power. I fear lightning, I fear cliffs and elevators and power lines, I fear what makes us holy
I fear your eyes, I could fall straight into them and never come out again, and when I had to leave, I'd be stuck between your eyelashes like a cancer, you would hold me there forever
This human heart beats quicker than I remember, dreams gone soft in the twilight; my unholy breath beats rough against my tongue,
and once, your tongue beat against mine and I remember thinking this must be what heaven feels like