silence in our ears

we learn sex in silent
  jagged breaths
    because walls are
      too thin & our love too
  dangerous in this house

        even when no one's home
          we are haunted by the possibility
      of walls with ears

            your lips taste of sunset &
          my favorite pie

                i dissolve in sheets of
              wanting to feel your skin
                  fade into shades of sky
                      our hearts are plastered
                    with coton & chromium
                      24 seconds away from
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every circle is perfect in the dark

the sky is every lover i ever knew
calling me back into their sheets
& every beautiful thing we created.
every cloud a pillow damp with
light, lust, & the licking of lips.
every sheet a ghost come back
for one last kiss before the morning
& the flight. didn’t i warn you?
when i threw myself in morse code
smoke into the ocean what did you
expect would happen but my
disappearance. i dissolve in the
bedframe of every picture i do not
want to keep. clothes on the floor
until sunrise, don’t think we’ll survive
with the birds. i don’t want to know
how you take your coffee only if you
will take me. the darkness is a skin
we won’t need to shed tonight. if
you break my heart open you’ll see
the sky.