my soul has pressed its nose against this screen

in search of likes & messages from you

or updates on this agonising weight

of time before I get to see your mouth

as well as all its picturesque surroundings

in action in my neighbourhood again

transforming my particularities

into little troupes of dancing iron filings

waving at your stars & their procession

people queueing up to pay for bread turn

& hurt their necks as yours goes sailing by

heavens below I’m bristling with static

& sticking to burned imaginings of

you /me fuse this incandescent circuit