Elegy for this life
like this night sky swimming
with life in my eyes
I am swollen
beneath a billowing shell
of scalloped stars
a flood of honeyed light
I count satellites
I have stolen you
I am distracted
watch stars fall apart
I am distracted
I am distracted I am distracted I am distracted I am distracted I am distracted I am
distracted I am distracted I am distracted I am distracted I am
distracted I am distracted
I am
on the lip of this cliff
the moon’s face
with its dying light
washes over me.