i bit down-
my tongue nowhere to be found.
maybe it was
swallowed with your confession,
my words slipping down my throat
like condensation
on your windshield,
like raindrops in my eyes.
the river splits the land below us
concrete lifting us above the noise
I want to sit with this,
to sit with you,
but the center console holds your secret
wedged between us all along,
& we are pulled apart again.
I can feel the weight of my body,
the weight of my want,
pinning me into the passenger seat-
a crush that never lets up.
you name the forces at play:
“magnetic”
pull and resistance wound into one
the air still charged
from the afternoon storm.
by morning, the clouds will burn away
but I’ll still be humming from the current
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