Teach me to look in your eyes:
close or wide set. Cold sweat.
A duet. Now do it: all I feel
is tension: the peripheral view:
gravity: veiled exhales: my abdominal
cavity. I used to: avert my eyes
when someone noticed me. Now
it’s long skirts: printed shirts: watch me
be an extrovert: never inert: a subtle flirt:
the hurt: of this aloneness. Eyes pass:
through concrete glass: only if you
can meet them: desperate and desirous.
Inside us: a searching for something:
for pupils and irises. Don’t hide them
from me: I’m learning to be a person
again: bus stop small talk: feigned
phone-fidgeting: the beginnings
of a bald spot. Alone, I cried listening
to piano keys: the thought of being seen.
Felt the cat sneak onto the ottoman.
Her soft fur: Schrӧdinger: mottled
with ginger: she leaves the box
alive: lies down: across from me:
watching me: following: my: gaze::
