Add rain to your amazements : next offer end
-less praise for the soft ways your body contains
its hallelujahs+lamentations : remember radio : such
waves : how as a kid you'd touch your face imagining
your hand someone else's as the Top-10 torchsong
melted you yet again : +still how each forgettable fire
of breath you take's braided :  to verse/chorus/verse
/chorus/I used to like this band before everyone else did
 : +how little first matters : how it's the singalong instinct
that carries : your voice goes here too : I need you as much
as we both need each month's lunar striptease :  these
come with me spirits we're born into : these slipstream ways
we're shaped by love : +the thought of losing what love
we've stuffed like gumwrappers in our pockets : +all
the love we can't see because we don't believe we've
earned it : plus existence : even dark shit once lived
-through : reckoned-with : is worth some shimmy : some
shake : some twist+itch to shout something : utterance
big enough to tie like a parachute to these snippets
of the infinite that bloom sudden from absolute nothing
: magnificent in their flimsiness : the way each daughter
smiled at me : six weeks old : simply because I too smiled
: or who knows : could've been gas : or those moments
I've shirked language like a sloughed-off blanket+find myself
as warm without : you know this : you've tried, too :
with lips or other instruments you've sought ways to keep
unsaying the unspeakable : impossible instants pooling
so wide+deep the rest of your life stays wet with them
: look up with me : another day : sky : gray or blue as the truth
each river's trying to enunciate : now look down : how
the ground (like any biding-time lover) plays cool tho
it longs to hold us : this is all any of us can do : tell
each other what we can : how I'll miss you soon is the sum
of sweetness each strawberry means : come clean with me
: don't you too wake hoping to find balance : all the while
never wondering if balance wants to find us : swirl of snow
as dark threads day shut : another year nearly wrapped thick
around the trunk of our hearts  : +that old electric ache
as we come again to realize we may never know what
we're here to be : say : move : believe : we dance so different
: hearts stuck on the same drumbeat : our wild softness+
doubtful wonder : our warm fragility+these hands :
so restless to make sure certain fires remain lit.