put this in a bottle and drink it.

i will not start by asking a question,
but tell you i always wondered why
we have eyelashes instead of soft robin wings,
and why our pupils are not star-shaped like our minds,
and most importantly,
why my skin pools to fit your body like rain.

[i have questions but you are my favorite answer.]

perhaps someday soon the world will end
with a river emptying its currents into our screaming
mouths
wide like an earthquake,
and perhaps someday soon we will be found
far from home but at home with each other
and all of the things you sing about
around our lovely heads.

we share words like we have joint custody
on the english language
and it keeps us together when flesh is not an option;
i keep tripping over long nerves and tendons
telling me your brain is one with your heart,
and you are everything--
friction and absence and electricity and oxygen, and

imissyoulikeyou'remyskin.