kissed someone with your nose
and after all these years
the shape of it
still
gets in between my glue
and elongates the space
makes present some emptiness
some physical erasure
of cells and tissue
me: the aesthete
the other: amalgamation of resistance, beauty, and
the patterned way I dysfunction
just the profile and present moment
color/ jaws/ soft hairs/ tiny mountain
arching in rigid genetics
taking up face
the way a nose does
shoring up tsunamis
through simple breath of being
floods me back to wandering and existing
in Hawaii/ San Francisco/ Oakland/ Wisconsin
to party drugs and some
little succulents in the big window of our 2
bedroom flat
the one near the beach
to life had, had, and had
to noodles and rain
to a single regret
to leaving him for paradise
to finding my real name
confounding and funny
how much lives in a body
when another body feels it
ain’t nothing more real
and after all these years
the shape of it
still
gets in between my glue
and elongates the space
makes present some emptiness
some physical erasure
of cells and tissue
me: the aesthete
the other: amalgamation of resistance, beauty, and
the patterned way I dysfunction
just the profile and present moment
color/ jaws/ soft hairs/ tiny mountain
arching in rigid genetics
taking up face
the way a nose does
shoring up tsunamis
through simple breath of being
floods me back to wandering and existing
in Hawaii/ San Francisco/ Oakland/ Wisconsin
to party drugs and some
little succulents in the big window of our 2
bedroom flat
the one near the beach
to life had, had, and had
to noodles and rain
to a single regret
to leaving him for paradise
to finding my real name
confounding and funny
how much lives in a body
when another body feels it
ain’t nothing more real
