Without motion

Shadowplay 

language is as close as i want

to get to love

it turns

me round

i wanted to run

into someone

safe enough to wing over

me, the air cold enough

clinging to this temporary

as near as i can stand

it’s fleeting, we retreat

control is about living

& for us, that meant survive

all the world did not give us

& then gave back its madness

i could read the pattern

of how we break, the body

that can’t relax hits a tipping point

written in hate, it was armoring

we had no desire to be the fire

put out, come for me

early morning before we disappear

back into lives, swallowing

of time under our fingers, fingers

you would trace the way i am

fingers under here, we be

this type of animal sheltering

in anonymous

you were the only
beast i could let go
underneath