Frost over my hands and feet Break my fingers off one by one So I’m reaching for you with saucers devoid of joints Easily shattered with sharp logic Only you have read the book before, And I am usually the one so eloquent and collected, Falling just short of being bound together
Crash against the surface of my face with a hundred-mile chill Disappear into the trees again You are not the forest under elemental pressure, I have never been the storm You arrive in me as the devastation That, laying on my broken spine, Flooding eyes fracturing the skylight, I gasp to gather meaning from