a place of dust and moon shadows lived between us

your headbutt “um” eclipsed the place where i thought to stand and dumped chilled bone-sand over my words, grains ticking into my eyeballs a glass reflecting only you as your shadow hallow graced my face

even as i suffered the silence of my own mouth my toes beside yours on the floorboards of night your gemini reciprocities hung bloated between our throats as we raced toward golden arches; you ordered (a) new “us”

my tongue you caged behind these blackened teeth caving, castrated by your “um,” pinned against every dick-pic-in-words you drew puffs of brittle breath crusted your lips in ice

i flung gray matter, flick-flicking mawk from lungs clogged with you pitted me/i fought myself—tuck ‘n roll howled unnoticed within the cavern of this neglect you boxed me into emotional capitulation the price of a sausage McMuffin

your headbutt “um” eclipsed the place where i thought to stand even as i suffered the silence of my own mouth my tongue you caged behind these blackened teeth pitted me/i fought myself—tuck ‘n roll howled unnoticed within

a place of dust and moon shadows lived between us