(PHOTO BY AUTHOR.)

I’m asleep with a buoyant paradox; you’re incredible.

POEM

🎵: Tori’s Ballad (bad tuner remix) by Marigold, bad tuner

The format of this poem is important to me, so I put a screenshot first. ✌️

I’m asleep with a buoyant paradox; you’re incredible.

Juicy contradiction.

Thank you for choosing me again, deep strawberry.

Been learning about paradigms.
We're both sidekicks in each other’s lives
because
we're both the heros. Hidden superpowers.
Wrapped over my skin, soft, taut, I surrender to victory.

Golden red mahogany streams, lifting, licking, gripping.
Plowing through sparkling wet dimension walls, lasers
— reborn
in an ice-clinking water bottle, floating
glaciers, insulated, iceberg island lips. Purified.

Mightier.