poem

we yearn until
we are content
and afterwards we push our ghosts on paper
and
speak
in past tenses
about soul daggers
and there's the fear ~
i
knowing what i have done
and what i am capable
and who i have hit on midnight runs from home
with their bloody appendages
picking themselves from the collage
that was us
~ that this too shall pass
half of me
the day in ohio
the month on twenty clouds
on the boat ride towards the city heart
could have sunk