Just so we're clear—
you're sure
the stars are the barrel fires
of all our exiled
ancestors,
but that language
is a curse
that precludes our getting
close?
*
"Poetry always
says more
than it means to,"
lectures the YouTuber confidently,
as if
we could measure it—
as if meaning came
in units.
*
If there was another universe
one address over,
I'd be
good as gone.
But the doors
that might lead there
(per the ones
from my nightmares),
all look exactly
alike.
