Rolling coins & cat eye marbles
An excess of gold
Do not be afraid: of how the body lingers
after light, how your teeth ache in the cold
The soft burn of your muscles
pulling away from one another
The deck loses suspension & our knuckles
their suspense
The tissue paper. Your pupil’s blood-
orange in the lavender light
Mosquitos buzzing from sweeter air
to sweeter air
Yesterday was pocket puppets
& VHS tapes
Everything shifting sideways
Today, you draw me
a moth. A crumpled infinity
Tomorrow, I will show you,
I am not swimming
to be saved
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Fisayo Adeyeye is an MFA candidate at San Francisco State University. He has works published in The Collapsar, Little River, Potluck Magazine, and has work forthcoming in Winter Tangerine Review, Inferior Planets, and The Wildness. Talk to him on tinybluewhales@gmail.com about ants, whales, and other animals of comparable size.