"The destruction of love can be brought about most swiftly when one love constantly demands of the other, 'Do you love me? Do you really love me?' while the other, at first, replying, 'Yes, of course I do' and being met with 'Are you sure?' has no place to go but away."

- Janet Frame, The Caparthians

starling

the skies cracking open
horizons appearing
the clearing of oceans
the searing of sun

gas station

we've slipped

in\to 

that day-to-day habit

the Dance of the Mundane

- it's okay, I think

we flow

in and out, sometimes

faces smushed together, 

sometimes

heads towards 

opposite ends

- it's okay

because the universe

(and all within it) 

is spherical, because

everything

must always

return

home

our fingertips will eventually

weave themselves

back into each other

and we'll remember all the lives

that have flushed themselves through us