INDEXICAL
This book I open is meant to remind me
of what happened in the past.
The time I drew a line in a dark bar
and slid an ice cube across the wood.
We burned ourselves up to get where we couldn't
have been. To confront my opacity, I pressed
a candle against my palm. October leaves
assemble a necessary message, the bright red
of their dying a symptom of denial.
The weather knows there is no such thing
as the absolute absence of hope. I doubt
in a year we will even be talking.
The invisible wire stretching from your finger
to my chest will spit electricity,
but no one will be left to seal it. This is when
the relationship between my eye
and the empty room will indicate you are gone,
if you were ever there, whoever you are
and whatever it does to want for us,
in our nothingness, the condition
under which we come back.
TYPO
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