I shimmy and shake in my bed drunk on iron eyelids.
Every lightbulb in the house is dormant.
Spectacular wings could protrude from my shoulder
The crickets are crackling in coils of
the smallest violins you’ve ever heard,
blades and I’d fly so much farther than you
The melody of midnights of insects of movements of taunts of time.
I give up on renewal, sit up, eyes twitching, bug-like.
I’d rejuvenate inside clouds
I grab ahold of breath jealously and my whole body expands;
I’m a balloon, a beast, a burst, ablaze.
with the evaporation of wind of falling
I breathe out and my ribcage collapses in on itself;
I’m rust to the point of dust, I’m faulty foundations,
desperately in love with life all over again
A wide-eyed, loud-cried baby, a doomful sigh,
Intoxicated by blue lights, kingless knights, recite:
a squawking child, a toy train, a seashell castle,
What am I doing here? Why am I losing?
Where is the moon tonight?
lullabies, your whispered “I love you,” springtime—
Eventually this night must end and
Tomorrow will pounce upon me like a hound.
