your atoms
were broader than
a whole universe

and I stung them
like a jellyfish

mine –
I said, you are
only mine but you
expanded anyhow

perched a white-
bright star

gave me a crater
to sleep in, I swear
there was another

place I needed
to visit while here

perhaps
a velvet bowel –
to remove me

from your system,
or the safe hooked
arteries, a pool of
   blood bleeding

I am cement
and you are a sail

drowning to catch
your fallen threads,
we combust.