title unknown :: june jordan

i train my eyes to see
what i am suffering
not to touch

late afternoon and the air
dissolves to luminous and elongated
molecules
a heartfelt mercury as delicate
as compelling
as the melted movements
of your lips

this must be the longitudinal
anatomy of rain

this cosmic commotion twice
bestirred by the exact
infinitesimal
assertions of your body’s
dance

these must be the subterranean
beginnings of all light

these shimmer surfaces
that glow arterial below the frosted rooftops
and the thick
surrender of the open
trusted
trees
and like the stars
above the dark far streets
between us
heat
develops into liquid
documents of fire
and there
and here
moving through these beautiful waters
you and i
become the river

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