Act III, COMPLETE DARKNESS. Naked.

You say
We are communicating through unrelated
acts of insecurity

I say
Kiss me, I am beautiful.

You say
I am a mountain goat in the poolhouse, bucking

I say
I am one thousand wild horses.

You say
Artichoke flowers, a book of thorns incapsulated

I say
listening, always.

You say
I appreciate you

I say
but what does that mean?

You say
until the tide comes in

and turtles freckle the shore like dark, glass plates

I say
you say nothing.

and you say nothing

1. MAHJ: To be beautiful after having a disease.

We are touching through plasma
like those
new un-poppable bubbles
gooey magenta spheres
as with chewing gum
that sticks to your fingers

Becoming closer poses the question:
What you are seeing: Feathers

all over the floor due to
cheap pillows

desperately,

I
Collect lovers like seashells
isn’t that what beaches are for?
Then mortar and pestalling
to create something evenly ground
It is always “that time”
but I am still keeping the cat

and in the end I will say one sentence
and it will be not the right one
because that is much more accurate