I forgot to say. Stand in your own form and be gone. Then grow. The first word was hurt. It was difference. We might unsound this curse. For that. I mean. Not one. But still. On wing for the unseen. I’m asking. Lend me your spirit. In pieces. this-was-once-city, this-was-once-green. This is them who borrow the drowning sea. I swear: I am not that. I am your matter and my matter in tune to that fact. One of us not that, then another, then another. A clarity beneath any utterance. Or name. Or word. The so-called other reverberates in me. You. Never met. Same flesh and same sky. Sounded in me and I flinched. I am meant to remember. Born to forget. My nothingness quickened. A shock of human pulse. I swore I would be here with you. I forgot to say.