or let that settle in the water

I have been very

watchful / all the while

the moon looking into the room

hard to tell / who gets closer

to knowing

or let desire become the word trust

we outgrow truth / only ever

the view from dreaming / still

calling out the names of planets

in your / gravel voice

or let a house fall down

the discipline of being / or tempting

the weather towards change

you are a woman / you do not move

becoming incremental / making holes

in white paper / holes as big as this room

big / as my body is for you now

or let the floorboards

at this table

I know every woman

I have loved / sits

very certain of her hands

or let the clothes hanging in your closet

the room is a collarbone / the bone breaks

in my big hands / the exchange makes me / larger

so large / I need / more space / the black

chair / the cat / the bowls in the kitchen / who

are you going to love when I / become them

or let a hollow in something

the room warns / laments/ saying

I am the temple you visit on Sunday

your love from elsewhere and only

when you need / forgiveness

or let this disclose color

the sea / makes it

so far from itself

you have done this work

for the sea / you did not

earn anything for it

or let instinct free from remorse

when I left / the room says

it was simple / but to return

I had to scale cliffs / I had to swim

or let image grieve

pain / open like a mouth

nights still hot / the moon doesn’t

remember ever having been here

the moons light touch / messes in the dark

waiting on her from inside

of bodies / the earth quakes

the earth still doesn’t need / our love

a counterpoint for belief / never fails

just like / the moon / getting sad

refusing / to drag / the sea