in our eyes' dilatory

dance our irises open

admit missed steps faults it marks

the corona every break

is here dot dot dash your bones'

brittle semaphore tattoo

out how far you fell how much

we have a third between us

a shift a shadow drawing

down the lids in noonday sun

shuttering hush of lashes

we say too much with fragile

instruments supreme geiger

counters tick tick tick burr

the needle swings don't you know

the meaning of it we dance

I lead you follow outside

are common house diamonds

winking out the clouds melting

a mushroom soaks in honey

the room whitens like a bone

exposed and we stand like posts

a thin string nailed between us

our eyes feel the heat shimmer

as something evaporates