on the borderline, simple thoughts guide breathing patterns out from the front porch: i dream we abscond, out through blurred fencelines in low light we trickle through pockets of wheat, the tumult of everything under a moon first distant, gleaming and moving creeks in your skin, pale gold like i so often imagine your eyes would turn under the soft parting of my lips. a ghost yet unmade. haunted i, already.
in dreams, i do not have you but still, you take me by the hand, utter warm silence, make small motions, closer by the day. i take out my hairs one by one, clog the sink a tiny bit more. build an ocean. sail to make us, halfway. a wider range, the only way out a kiss on the wind. i sent myriads, all lost; still, maybe someday you'll find one.
out under three thousand shining points unstitching, we mutually profess undying nothing and graze skin. my fingertips will never know you.