in midwinter noon’s light your fingers shudder out concerto number three on the insides of your cheek in the hollows of your thighs prickling beneath your ribs swollen heart knees that cave so, just so
split second they called you beautiful golden under the lights but many hours more you oxidize feet rusting varnish green rusty blood that stems, slowly, slowly
they say the music dances through the one she loves, a body and life anew i once saw the night embrace you as a lover did you love her back? did you love me back? or were we to have and to hold and to throw across the room reborn as something less