the horizon

a flat lining heartbeat

encroaching darkness

retracting all

until the formlessness

stays the madness

)fluttering breath

the wings of bats overhead(
remember when you

used to envy her pillow

permitted to retain

her sweat scent spit
the sky

is a liar

tall tales still

in thin moving clouds

the threatened downpour

dissipating the promised

cleanse diminishing
remember when every

dip and curve was

your revered nation

religion and patriotism

suddenly consummate in

your previously anarchic

being as your fingers

whispered secrets down her belly
the trees

are sentinels

protecting the no ones

protecting them

in the shade

she’s most brilliant

parts of her hidden
remember when excuses

tumbled from between lips

still wet from her lips

still wet from your cunt
the sun

made from bees

vibrates mightily

burning even the most

conscientious as though to

prove a point
remember when she

started disappearing into

her ugliness

flushed cheeks fresh

with “fuck you’’-s so violent

your breath left

erratic patterns in your

chest connect the dots

gone all wrong
the birds

a cacophony

of ordered chaos

a crowd of witnesses

crowing at dawning rituals
remember when tea

scolded both

your tongues each

morning

but even that

couldn’t burn the

laughter out of you

both
the earth

unsteady shifting

not half as strong

as its reputation a mass of

impermanence
remember when she

realised you could die

denied it every day

until she fled

across that lying sky

into that beatless

horizon
..?