My fingertips miss her so much. - Andrea Gibson

..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly?
do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves?
does the orphanage stop screaming for its mother?
when the sand in the desert has been melted down to glass
and our reflection is not something we can stand to look at
does the white flag make for a perfect blindfold?
yesterday i was told a story
about this little girl in Iraq, six-years-old,
who cannot fall asleep
because when she does
she dreams of nothing
but the day she watched her dog
eat her neighbor's corpse.
if you told her war is over
do you think she can sleep?

I have been painting the night sky upon the inside of doorframes

so only moonshine will fall on your head in the earthquake.

It isn't that you don't like boys.
It's that you only like boys you want to be