green air
i'm breathing jealousy
you're lit as if every photon loves you
which was my role
you can't see the dense canopy
the press of foliage
foresting me in shade
i am becoming undergrowth
did you imagine
i could fail so completely
was there a future
in which i'd flower
you forgot to imagine me
something more than mulch
you forgot to imagine me
this is the wall built
to keep the shadows bulwarked
worry climbs furrows
beneath overhangs, two pools
catch dilute waste light
cast aside by ancient stars
long since gone, unmourned, frozen
uncanny, your eyes
the shape of eternity
bound in joyous light
the heat and motion of you
make worlds extraordinary
slip between seconds
unite wave and particle
burn us, unconsumed