Fire Escape Poem

(ease seeps through

these slow nights,

spent lazily gazing

at smalls stars

glowing

above the fire escape)

it’s here i’ve come to know.

(the pines shake,

filled with hushed secrets

whispered in the dark)

we sit within it all,

eyes cast low

smoke lingering

on our lips -

and lingering still -

on our fingertips.

(the silence of the sky:

streams of soft milky ways

and nurseries of stars -

a silence gently broken

by your sigh)

a moment uncorrupted –

a moment felt

a thousand years ago.

(we look past gravel garages,

past windows of neighbors we

do not know,

past green hills and empty roads

and there, in the nothingness

we see life

refracting light)

and all the while

a slow moon sways with knowing.

(surely this feeling was felt

a thousand years ago)

in these nights we’ve found eternity;

it’s here i’ve come to know.