Empire Hands

From Growtastic

I felt a forgettable ghost warmth

Kept high and returned to me in bowtie and done mascara

We were sleeping to drink and drinking to sleep

The worsening dried in-between parked car rivalries

and beating the steering wheel to return the lust

Cordiality made it worth it

And while you were sunsetting,

I was bottoming out beneath my own hand mountains

breaking under the pressure of steam from the mouth of your exhales

You fogged up the mirror between breaths

Between knees

Then like a slow dance you slipped back to me

and I couldn’t be them

and instead we didn’t

I stayed in your hair