Running Water

We felt like raindrops on a car window together,

We fell like footsteps on this glassy weather.

Transparently, our dripping sleeves

wiped watery streaks for all of the occupants to see

through their breath, its restless monotony.

We held together by our hands as we splattered.

We and hell set to collide and

we just worried about our landing,

the briefly frozen. patter of our standing,

the unspoken moment

as we both started to scatter.

But we run the same way: one after the other,

growing thinner together across the speeding window.

We run the same way, running into each other,

Until one drop, smaller than how we first began,

Shatters.

Shut|Open

 i missed you

 when I shot open my head's window

 When I defenestrated bits of brain

 I patted safety glass

 i built too cheaply to last,

 it didn't shatter so much as

 Swing.

  

 into an overgrown room.

 arms and legs canopy the floor,

 dripping leaves fall from the ceiling,

 snow blows in sideways bloody

 and you're getting wet and as I

 look away at the whispery bullet holes in the air

 You hang.

  

 I just barely fucking missed you

 tracing the last of our love all over my body for the last time,

 Saying “fuck me” for the last time,

 Saying “let's be lonely together” for the last time –

 where I keep us in mind inside me.

  

 i wanted us to be the first to go.

 i didn't want to die thinking of you.