i can see the echoes you left with your shoes
like pitched pebbles in a pond
hopping from star to star across a reverberant night
never letting go of my hand
and when sleeping time came you called it nocturned
only now the sun is on my shoulders crying together was better
than rearranging the names of streets in your voice to lose being lost
dear sweat souls i know you know it was i who let go
to use both my hands to strip off my clothes and dive in on my own
to rise and find in the true rising height
buildings left and sky left
water towers held up in towns under of all things rain
i’d of lept on a bomb for you
and i know you knew knewest knowest how
that i can love
because of you
and i hear the mississippi talking at night
turning rocks inside out
the way you went
shyly red and heavy
nocturned
i put together feathers and whistles and sunk them in fire
you were once and now never not were
a visitor
like me will be
come to your earth
to overlap
a bear
shown to water

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