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Here is my sacrifice: my hummingbird landing in a stranger's palm.

Don't think about Laika in orbit. Don't think about cringe and catastrophe.

I am not obsessing.
I am just sitting here
perforating this post-it
with a push-pin.

No one wants to be remembered for their death, or rather, I don't. So why do I remember hers and remember hers? I

Not so much living, but a hovering without sense.

Maybe my limbs are made
mostly for decoration,
like the way I feel about
persimmons.

I'm thirty-five and remember all that I've done wrong.

There remains the mystery of how the pupil devours so much bastard beauty. Abandoned property.

This land and I are rewilding.

I swear, I'll try harder not to miss as much: the tree, or how your fingers under still sleep-stunned sheets coaxed all my colors back.

My mother's psychic says, everyone essentially wants
the same thing as everyone else, a sense of belonging, a coming home.

Here it is: the new way of living with the world inside of us so we cannot lose it, and we cannot be lost. You and me are us and then, and it and sky.

...this life is a fist
of fast wishes caught by nothing
but the fishhook of tomorrow's tug.

People have done this before, but not us.

If we could light up the room with pain,
we'd be such a glorious fire.

Desire is a tricky thing, the boiling of the body's wants,