signs

there are places we can look from and not be seen standing
and staring over the railing when i watch you dance it marks
me a hundred ways i have been sick
now i can remember how it feels to take time listening to a person
how each we are so eager to tell actual exact reality as if it were
something unclear here take a picture
of us standing under this doorway waiting for the lights to turn or
take this down in your best italics: we invented the human heart so
that we'd have some new sightline
to push our universe of empathy back into a small organ a tangelo
to gesture toward when referring to our deep down true feeling selves
so we could dance like that with eyes closed
with everything we've got in us that tries to get out