90 degrees

i have seen couples who haven’t met yet

break up after being

hunched over each other’s shadows

to gobble the darkness that only the brightest

of suns will soak

to leave a line of black that will be ceaselessly vertical

normal

at the right time

though not yet dear

not at this moment when there are others laughing

and diving into this trying attempt at exorcism

at killing the vampire but keeping his teeth

at slaughtering the werewolf but wearing his fur

even as you too grow

out of the form of you

who at was once formless

and not guaranteed a once

that would spray existence on wild woman

unlike me

sitting calm quiet attractive sure

enough for you to talk to you then me then you again

if you said the right thing

the only thing

the thing that would thing you

back to the splatter of cities beside each other

yet still lonely and lost and looking

for the girls who come out

onto others

the children who will not be

but became

for a short while in the in between

of smelling adolescence and did you like that

and ya ya ya

a duck or a witch that is still burning

from the forest she grew

to create potions that would one day

lure you to me to i writing

of what

could be

if only

be could