squinting backwards at the sun my mind’s eye reconciles two worlds the one where we live and the one where we fight to find our maker they meet at sea level my body is compelled towards your body it’s a compulsion like how a stone falls to earth and the earth knows to meet it sediment and sulfur thrust faults and tributaries the nature of objects
Poem
The Cipher
you tape-record the exchange like we’re in a police precinct and you are catching me in a crime of words time is limited we whisper fast, each syllable coming like code everything is important and we forget it with urgency
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scorched by a cold sun
my daughter’s eyes rimmed red
a whisper of autumn
breaks the bridge of her nose
suburban bedroom teen
the sound of the garage door opening
mom’s side or dad’s
the click- then tired drag
Tabaaha
in our grief our eyes are so wide open
bitter water meets land
the edges of things