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SOUL MATE


I never could figure it out How two souls could mate

Undressing each other In the cloudy mist of the next world

Forgetting the buttonholes of skin plopping open unzipping drifting

Above

crinkled puddles of sloughed flesh
shoved into the backseat of a hearse

Entering the terminal of the next world
Sprinting down a tunneled terminal
Into the light of my beloveds eye
Two wispy sheaths invisible sigh
Pressed into the spine of the pearly gates A sparkle aural nimbus

Searching

for respective cloudy genetalia For free weekends, votive candles

Pulling her halo down past the cumulus white of her kneecaps
Spreading apart her wings Feeling the silk of her feathersBrushed into the blank navel of my torso
Entering her body with a splash of dawn

Eternity

Shaped origami Valentines
Mystery of Time space causality



Unveiled in the atmosphere beyond
Oxygen chemicals of a name now

OneSmoking cigarettes rolled with grains of sunshine Cradling our wispy appendages

Around each other’s scent

Nestled besides the nuclear glow of a nearby star Candles lit with the squinting tips of constellations


Or perhaps it will be like in this world

With the woman I love
Our bodies unable to connect

The cloudy haze of our embrace Touching,

Not touching

Passing through each others sight
Looking over a balcony into
The smudged oval pasture
Our prior solar inhabitance
Marble necks of tombstones sidled
next to strangers we

Never understood
Wondering what took us so long.