(in the beginning)
you
stood obscured at the top of the stairs troubling through me
in the dark-cryptic-it’s how I remember particular particles
of your face
lights out because of the solar flare
what it does to the power grids
back then it was the aurora borealis ahead of you
oceans mountains gorges
wild flowers snow
versus state exams the loss that comes with choice and other promises
to yourself that you’ll have to fill in for yourself
your eyes unbelieving in their sleepwalk as if coronal mass would stop still
not quicken your mantle or cling to your pyjama buttons
the only thing
missing was a fluffy toy folding from your hand to cliché that frame the need for props
always at the core like yesterday rabbited again in headlights
combatted by finesse overload falling into space
panic is another of your histories and in the end this is just another
beginning
you
lighting the northern moods with paper butterflies pasted
on the bedroom wall pink yellow blue and tadpoles rescued from the lab
you
stood obscured at the top of the stairs troubling through me
in the dark-cryptic-it’s how I remember particular particles
of your face
lights out because of the solar flare
what it does to the power grids
back then it was the aurora borealis ahead of you
oceans mountains gorges
wild flowers snow
versus state exams the loss that comes with choice and other promises
to yourself that you’ll have to fill in for yourself
your eyes unbelieving in their sleepwalk as if coronal mass would stop still
not quicken your mantle or cling to your pyjama buttons
the only thing
missing was a fluffy toy folding from your hand to cliché that frame the need for props
always at the core like yesterday rabbited again in headlights
combatted by finesse overload falling into space
panic is another of your histories and in the end this is just another
beginning
you
lighting the northern moods with paper butterflies pasted
on the bedroom wall pink yellow blue and tadpoles rescued from the lab
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