STARLESS EYES

Right Here

There's a bridge that falls off the edge of the earth / if you tilt just right / if you crane your neck just so / you might catch a glimpse of someone walking there / in this pocket of a cosmos / in the curvature of the big dipper / of the ache in-between gum and teeth / that is where love leaves us / not in a constellation made of diamonds / not in a space between a hello and a goodbye / There's a bridge that falls off the edge of the earth / it is silent like drums destroyed in a pyromaniac's rage / humid like sticking your head in a sauna - no in an oven / the footfalls of giants echo in this apocalyptic cliché of an end / and yet this is love / this is how it is leaving us / There's a bridge that falls off the edge of the earth / if you close your eyes and step to the right to the left to the center and then the right again / if you tuck your tongue between your teeth just like this / you will walk across it like you saw someone once / in this incurable efficacy of doom / in the void of a plum pit scraped into ash / of the fingers of a child with baby hairs in its mouth / this is where love left us / push me down the bridge first / I want to fall where there's a bridge that falls off the edge of the earth