Dreaming of ice
Every night this week
I’ve driven an hour west
To Utah
To park in the desert
And assemble my secondhand telescope
To peer through the space between us.
To marvel at the sunlight
Reflected off your cool face
You peer back at me.
\\
There is water in you,
I know this.
All that light must be ice.
\\
When the stars shift
And the nocturnal lizards scurry back to their caves
I pack up my scope
And its lenses
I am careful to put them back in place
In their padded box
Which is all black under my nighttime hands
And soft like the space between us.
\\
It snows next week
and
My boots crunch through the wet white drifts
Cool sunlight reflects off my face.
I dream that I have cut
Through the soft distance
As a blade through water.
You could have been my home
Stinging blue-cold on my lips
Numbing my hands
Crushed under my boots
I love you
Distant, icy planet.
Posted Aug 27, 2021, 5:44 PM UTC
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