In deep greys, I am covered in refracted light, under a ceiling window with low hum drifting in. I count the bands splitting apart, and that’s how they will remain for now. Traveled 93 million miles together, nearly the same, intertwined and coexisting with waveforms bent in and through each other, to only be separated…

Everything under the sun, at any time. Watching a far off love affair fade into cool tones. String my prodded memories on a chain like dried corals, forced off their ocean floor. Don’t think I mean to ignore you, it’s just easier to block uncertainties that clarify this reality, my reality. There’s all this pain…

You dropped off in the water, I looked but couldn’t find you. In this dark place you weren’t here, in the silence you weren’t here. So I dove down to the deepest on the sea floor, I kept still to count the sea creatures, I swam into the currents, I drifted within them. I slept…

These sun rays are leaving later and later these days, so I count the bars dividing through the leaves. Sometimes my head feels so clear, and I pretend you are sitting across from me, sun in my face, dark brown amber irises blinded yet refusing to blink. I playfully laugh at your syntax, but I…