I Remember You

I remember you

From before

The atoms in our painted fingernails

Knew how to oscillate.

I sometimes think in a language that does not exist,

And that I cannot translate

Into real-world tongues.

I always thought that made me crazy...

Until I met you

Who,

From the first words we spoke—

From the first time our tongues touched—

Understood.

Things once whiskey-soluble

Now mark my skin

And overtake me

As liquor once did.

It's on my face

Like ash or sweat or blood...

Or beauty, as you remind me often.

Won't you come and watch history at its end?

I remember you

From the dust that warped the records on my desk;

From the rain that,

In the cosmic eyeline,

Fell in one quintillion different ways

And always rose again...

As every little death gives way to life renewed

J.K.