Last night
I was burning
burning
burning.
I thought I would
never get to sleep,
never wake up.
Red lips
pulled apart
red mouths
to form circles.
Eventually, I fell
as thin as smoke
into one of those
openings.
You kept
breathing into me
glowing me
in and out.
I burned there
until the dawn
circled my
tapering life
with its round
full womb of light.
