| Can't find the forest, | |
| Too stuck on trees. | |
| But now you're invested, | |
| So I'm left pretending, | |
| Its all I can see | |
| I asked for a window | |
| To open my cell | |
| You came as kaleidoscopes | |
| Climbing, colliding | |
| You came as yourself | |
| Whether I'm ready | |
| Is not up to me | |
| We go where we're ordered | |
| To bunker or breach | |
| To the close of creation | |
| As shells and stories | |
| A spiral staircase | |
| Astoria, Queens | |
| I claimed you while conscious | |
| Got sleepy, forgetful | |
| And lost you in dreams | |
| You folded you leg | |
| Right foot to left knee | |
| You laughed at my back | |
| Said you could not believe | |
| How violent I could be | |
| Just brushing my teeth | |
| Drove from the service | |
| The truth in my teeth | |
| My woman beside me | |
| A clutch of hydrangeas | |
| A strange sort of peace | |
| In loss, I'm made certain | |
| Unveiled clarity | |
| It's you I will marry | |
| My lover, my family | |
| You always will be | |
| But every word | |
| Seemed to small to speak | |
| So we watched the sky reach | |
| Ambivalent peaks | |
| We made our projections | |
| Present and free |