teen gothic 2

that imagined space you'd

take up here if you were here

when it's chill night and your blond ghost's

infrared and real and I could grab you now

 

before at last

at last you're gone

and the wind

ceases and your accident has not yet occurred

 

tonight

when you fling your face

into the cold water of chance and breathe

it tears my lungs, too, and your facades are

 

printing

printing on me

that intimacy we knew

before we met and infinitely diverged