Affinity

What did you see?

How have you been?

There are lines that never end

And from the day that I could talk

I had to know

How will I live

Without a body?

A man believes

A woman needs

You measure time

By how you breathe

The road erodes

Under my feet

Inside the snow

A woman sleeps

I’m making sounds

I can’t control

I push the day

Into a hole

I hang my shirt

Up on a nail

Beside the sea

And swimming deep

Into the dark

My shadow moves

With, then without, me

The only place

I ever lived

I found a home

I lost a friend

A tired moon

Falls on the street

And on the tides

That carry me

I tried to speak

To someone beyond me

The only face

I’ve ever seen

Was all around me