more love letters from an abstraction

return home to me, the blood pooling under your doorway.

the wounded animal. knife in chest.

collect me, seashell bones. the white clatter. the black sea of night.

you took my body down, so finish what you’ve started. honor the parts of my body

still trying to sing. i am fine here in your arms,

the arms that cry death,

so as long as i will see the stars again. scatter me

and tell the lights to remember. tell the world to turn for me.

tell the universe it is my grave.

the night sky always listened

to you. you always knew

what to say.