Northern Lights - Anathallo

You paper cut the air above the tundra when you came back in silence, in sheets,

and the neighbors called me up out of my sleep to watch you unfold the blanket

Wrap me back into the womb

The first thought is fear, and brother, it emits a crippling bend

A shame you can’t know that you carry until you’ve seen it offered down

Watching shielded in the silence, shielded in the knowledge that has no use for

language

Standing on the lawn at a distance

Watching shielded in the silence, shielded in the knowledge that has no use for

language

Standing on the lawn until you wish to be crushed in its collisions

You paper cut the air above the tundra when you came back in silence,

in sheets and the neighbors called me up