Shrive me, beloved, / for I have exhausted / the bellows of / this particular life.

decide, in the ignorant way of children / that now’s the time to grow up / fold away your dreams / along with your wings

Did anyone think about cleaning advice / for carpets stained with enchanted detritus / the silt from a thousand journeys

She didn’t cry when it happened. / She knew before the news told the story. / She knew in the way that a woman knows

Spinning languidly in a particle stream / forfeited to gravity and the final dead cold / lies a slender needle-ship / glinting against stygian space.

For weeks— / gather bones. / Meander underworld.

Work wood on a potter’s wheel, mold it, / warmly glowing with oil eased in so it / forgets that it was never soil, never clay.

so married / by skin / even my fingers rush to study / every dry groove you carve across / my own face, our face, / the single self, splitting into / foil and forgetting