thunder setting off alarms- 4:59 a.m. thursday.
bedsheets twisted, skin disconnected- forever-o-clock everyday.
electricity bleeds from fractures in the skyline.
lightening pirouettes across the distention of time.
fear uncoils slowly from quiescent rest
tugging harder at the ends of the knot in my chest.
clouds descending in heavy sighs
cut with the shards of stars left in the shattered skies.
earth, she is resolidifying into something new
but baby, i just can't stop wanting to wake next to you.
can't stop racing against the light that occupies the air
and shaking heaven out of the sky so i can say i've been there.
oh your eyes are still hazy like the death of september
but by the time the sun rises, i
won't
even
remember.

(2003)