more love letters from an abstraction
return home to me, the blood pooling under your doorway.
the wounded animal. knife in chest.
collect me, seashell bones. the white clatter. the black sea of night.
you took my body down, so finish what you’ve started. honor the parts of my body
still trying to sing. i am fine here in your arms,
the arms that cry death,
so as long as i will see the stars again. scatter me
and tell the lights to remember. tell the world to turn for me.
tell the universe it is my grave.
the night sky always listened
to you. you always knew
what to say.
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