variations on togetherness

            rain rivers the roads & we hide
narrow in the hall             our small faces illuminated
            blue by the moonlight of our phones

how small can we make             our bodies together
            how we must redefine the word
together             redefine our name the sunshine state

            reimagine a state of sunshine
starlight splinters             the broken arms of oaks
            I imagine together in small branches

broken down to-get-her             I want to get her
            to safety w/o the walls breaking down
my phone a river of blue light             flooding w/ texts

            we never defined our version of together
a version of okay             whatever okay means when
            the wind whips dark & hard for hours

& hours texts redefine             what it means to be together
            & apart at the same time lightning laces
the sky green             transformers firework in bursts

            cannoned bright & swallowed by the dark
our phones small stars             dying slow in our hands
            the light softening against our cheeks

hundreds of thousands w/o power             powerless I hope
            she stays safe I hope morning comes soon
that soon the roads will unriver             & we’ll be together again