I confess my guilt time and again—

Confused, are you / the inkling shoestring type / who always gets away / You must remind me: / who am I to you if / you do not bite?

I marched through sanctified fields / those fields / in Georgia

the day i realized you weren’t just for me anymore / but you were now for someone else too / i found dry sweat in every sheet and skin crease

Methuselah star (HD 140283) is a yellow subgiant located in the constellation Libra. It is one of the oldest stars known. With an estimated age of 14.46 ± 0.8 billion years, the star appears older than the universe itself. 

When you were a centipede, I was a millipede. / Our difference was but time, distance, length and speed. / You measured in centimeters while I did mine in millimeters;

you don’t paint but still find / yourself with loaded brush, / limning a creek from memory, / a place you played as a child, / a weeping tree

Handsome Monkey King, Great Sage / Equal to Heaven, we appeal / with dusty knees and shoulders / aching to match our hearts.

Her grandchildren are little greygreen screefalls of tumbling action / tumbling up over her shoulders in the moonlight / just to fling themselves down her incline, down the long hill

Some days I wake too early / Eyes like hardboiled eggs / All of me borrowed / Blood beating in my ears / Limbs arranged in a / Semaphore of loneliness.