At any given moment, what you might be thinking

about horses
and how it might feel in the chest and along
the flanks of the thighs to ride them

about the keyhole
and the intimate glimpse
it offered of other lives 

about swimming
and how the windmill motion of arms
propels the landbound body through blueglass shards of water

about going wild or eating 
sticky fruit in orchards 
while dancing to radio music

about rolling 
spliffs in someone's garage while a girl
from another high school says it's like inhaling burnt paper
 
about knowing enough 
was put away to keep you
going indefinitely on cup noodles

about the door
that led out of those rooms 
of shouting and breaking

about the failure
of water to stitch 
one shore to another

about the hard
points of light on surfaces
that go on and on



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