Star Gazer Lilly,
adjuncts & half-wits dismay
my celestial bent.

Star Gazer Lilly,
you smell like the perfume
of crocodiles.

Star Gazer Lilly,
I wonder why we are
still awake.

Star Gazer Lilly,
I am trying very hard
to write a beautiful poem.

Star Gazer Lilly,
It is May & the winds
they blow cold.

Star Gazer Lilly,
I want to be you.

Star Gazer Lilly,
incumbent rhymes hold me
hostage without ransom.

Star Gazer Lilly,
I don’t know who I am, anymore.

Star Gazer Lilly,
can I touch your mottled
braille skin & read my mind.

Star Gazer Lilly,
my capillaries merge
into a poem in cursive.

Star Gazer Lilly,
there are too many, now.

Star Gazer Lilly,
there is no imagining
the planets of you & I.

Star Gazer Lilly,
I want you to live forever.

Star Gazer Lilly,
the subtleties burn & fall
like the ash of our skin.

Star Gazer Lilly,
I thought I saw your face
in the window.

Star Gazer Lilly,
you have sex
growing out of you
where my tongue hides.

Star Gazer Lilly,
I can’t control your thoughts.

Star Gazer Lilly,
this is the night I fall in love
with you.

Star Gazer Lilly,
my eyes are burning pot-holes
brushed with the glitter of a syllable.

Star Gazer Lilly,
when my water bursts
will you be born?

Star Gazer Lilly,
who goes there?

Star Gazer Lilly,
who goes there?

Star Gazer Lilly,
we tell each other our dreams
& pick up the pieces of our waking.

Star Gazer Lilly,
Every wondering is a slithering
rope in imaginary rooms.

Star Gazer Lilly,
who remembers the night?

Star Gazer Lilly,
Each day exists each day
only till we sleep.

Star Gazer Lilly,
I do not want to know.

Star Gazer Lilly,
there are always more
memorable silhouettes
pursuing my case-in-present.

Star Gazer Lilly,
you ate an animal
& became its skin.

Star Gazer Lilly,
my hands tremble
at the shock of morning blood.

Star Gazer Lilly,
there are dark horses
I ride to remember, Abraxas.

Star Gazer Lilly,
hold me.

Star Gazer Lilly,
there are people laughing
at people laughing
at each other.

Star Gazer Lilly,
there lives a man
in my insides.

Star Gazer Lilly,
I want to speak
the simple language
that exists nowhere.

Star Gazer Lilly,
I wait.

Star Gazer Lilly,
the body deteriorates
& we slip away
to climes within ourselves.

Star Gazer Lilly,
some days I wonder
if I can walk.

Star Gazer Lilly,
I stop
to think.

Star Gazer Lilly,
there are too many pretty phrases
& pretty girls with pretty tongues.

Star Gazer Lilly,
I don’t know how to turn.

Star Gazer Lilly,
can I go back with you?

Star Gazer Lilly,
there are many journeys
crossing paths on the wheels
of our own vehicular commonality.

Star Gazer Lilly,
I am sorry
to affect you this way.

Star Gazer Lilly,
sometimes I dart
& become accomplice.

Star Gazer Lilly,
I only want to talk to you.

Star Gazer Lilly,
my head swells
with the rising tide
it bobs on the sky
& pretends to be moon.

Star Gazer Lilly,
I renounce my own
tongue & take yours instead.

Star Gazer Lilly,
I found pearls
& thought them wisdom
but they dissolved
in the vinegar of my thoughts.

Star Gazer Lilly,
Gently, the hills too
avoid my gaze.

Star Gazer Lilly,
& the stars too
avoid my gaze.

Star Gazer Lilly,
& you I am gazing at
you gazing at stars gazing

at nobody but each other.