Vectors
We part with velocity
and timelessness:
Morning—
half-awake
half-sober.
I want to hold you there
nerves and muscles rippling
grind into the touch
I am so close.
We were fighting
when the car just missed us.
We were fucking,
and I cried quietly.
And then there was that moment,
silent and waiting, you found me,
cold in the cabin.
My me crumpled inside myself like an expanse of tin foil
balled in the hand.
Sometimes I still smell the flowered smoke.
To be unwanted.
Four years of gravity.
It doesn’t matter how long the fall.
When we splash
we go in different directions
like molecules do.
The Landscape We Left on Each Other is out of print from The Blasted Tree Store.
Featured by The Blasted Tree: October 8, 2018
Lauren Elle DeGaine
Contributing Author
The Landscape We Left on Each Other by Lauren Elle DeGaine is a Blasted Tree collection of poetry.
ISBN [Digital]: 978-1-987906-37-0
Cover Design by Kyle Flemmer