We bowed our heads backwards
discovering a moon ghostly and incomplete
but a moon that, unlike our bodies, didn’t seem reversed.
Some clock would soon strike midnight and the one moment
we were bending towards gravity
the other the sky was being radiant in twilight.
I craved the sun
and I craved the dreams
I’ve been making under the sun.
The twilight spread warmer, friendlier
and letting go I felt my body fragment into pieces
as if all it consisted of had been commanded to depart.
I sensed the void of the moon
and that void was momentarily
the only thing tangible about me.
You hushed
and as you hushed you screamed
and, judgements reserved, we stayed there
immaterial and damaged for a while.
Just before the rain came
my pieces crawled back and reconstituted in a familiar shape
that was no longer I.
You turned and looked at me
as the first drops landed on our skin
but I am quite certain, you couldn’t see.
June 2022,
Athens.
Photo: train trip; Scotland, 23 Jan. 2019.
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