Tuesday, July 23, 2024

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I'll be songs in your car
the dust on your windshield

nothing too heavy or whole
for you to actually carry

I keep dreaming a baby
I’m raising alone

in a big dark city
fear and love percolating 

I'll be the heart archivist 
over here 

that day you made me sign
an invisible contract

invoke very briefly
your brown eyes and dirty arms

then relinquish my omnipotence
and I begin again

and again
wherever my beginning is