songs for keeping the watch: night 07

i noumenal to you scattershot, appearing. the hand you see upon waking,
one sun-shot mote colliding, photonic. how far i would sail, how fast,

solarflare & current rushing. but hush: there is a rustle in the reeds.
i surface, cling & clamber, dream. there is a great heat. the setting

fire. shimmerpool refraction, perfectum, desire: the season sweeps
seeking in radar's sleepless green. at night there is a long stretch

of light in which i live on your behalf, drinking in the day. between
us nothing may escape, no quotidian festoon, a moment's rain, illusion of

depth. making good the time while distance reigns. i shall not pretend
to glory in such lack, but there will light a time when sure as spin

& handedness we clasp. a day of days unfurls. a world, a word. your verb.