In my dream you were there

behind me, your body nestled to mine. I could feel your

breath on my neck and I asked when you came.

I have always been here. They say time

in the universe is not the same

as how we think of time. You know my touch

because you’ve felt it before. My hand

wrapped to your thigh, how my mouth wets a path

down your skin’s delicate hairs.

I cannot ever know your touch without having felt

your absence. In the dream you were gone

carried away on the crest of a wave

when I woke I felt far from you.

That comes in the pain of distance and landscape

the emptiness of horizon. (She centers herself.)

Do not translate this, I want to feel you

inside me. Stay in this moment.

Do not go anywhere without me.

“carried away on the crest of a wave” from “Land Locked Blues” by Bright Eyes (I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning, 2005)