walk into the water,
it swallows you,
breath in the moment
is trapped in your lungs….
Breath
we don’t celebrate
the blank page,
we abhor
its crisp
clean
emptiness….
I’d know you
with my eyes closed
and my hands tied
behind my back. …
you breathed in the space
beside my ear
i smelled the undertone
of your hair ….
Does the asterisk
make you nervous?
It makes me nervous.
It means going off to find
something somewhere else…
You’re not right —
you push all day,
chug that caffeine
like it’s oxygen…
Do you ever get
claustrophobic
because the sky
is gray and close
like a blanket
my blood muscle
got pushed back
it’s suffocating
in the back wall
of my chest cavity
Humidity
is when the earth holds her breath
