A fortnight since our final night
in another life I missed that flight
and spent the drizzled afternoon awash in embers,
draped and seething, wriggled tight
a brief touch magnetic, imprinted into bone
each follicle tingles, each vein remembers
the day spent in that other life
that day that stretched and gently languished
a month, a year, a lifetime passed
an ending changed by flitting chance
a moment blossomed and allowed to last
an ocean that won’t lap my toes
tousle my hair and fill up my nose
subsume me complete, until nothing else was
in my mind replaced by time I’ve seen
but my skin has lived that one more night
in waking dreams I wander that life