Thy Road, Thy Raft, They Comfort Me

Introduced diffidently

Side-stepping ever so lightly

We became photographs

Tucked in cards of awkward verse

Clasping thirst in the darkness,

more curtain than curse,

the ever-breakable panes

now painted in frost,

my slip, our fall,

as I immerse

into that dream horizon

silently rescinded

Savoring sorrow at such a cost.

To wander into your twilight

and the dawn after w…