let us continue like this

like an absence, a diamond-
bright space where old bodies
should be laid to rest but are
nowhere to be found
like a
loss of the senses; as if we are
reading braille and singing deaf
and walking around with our eyes
closed tight in prayer

i want to continue like this:
drinking
cold tea at dawn and dropping
silence into each other's laps like
coins for beggars
like clean new
birds with their lungs flung wide open
i want to continue as we are
now, quiet and drenched, consumed
with love-breathing, kisses skimmed flat
across the open water

i want us to continue like this: tugging
clothes over our heads and crushing
flowers and thanking god in the super-
market
to go side by side and bury
my pain with ice and light

leaving snow angels in our wake