are era

women are universes

giving birth to universes

that tie expanding infinity

to the outstretched fingers

of the baby that becomes a girl

who will grope the night sky

with loneliness

*

and then

we were

two people sitting together

with nothing to do

but watch the sun die into the abyss

wondering if it cries when we can’t see it

though our eyes too are blurred

*

the eyes give away what the body cannot unsee

i learned as i watch her watch him

as though she were looking for something beyond

hoping to feel again like the blind

*

when i am dead

will you think about me

for in my last thought

i will think of you

and what you think about