it was easy to lie for a while
to let wind tangle truth back into my throat
like fishing line
and yet
when my name was said as if it belonged in her mouth
my heart let go of its tongue.
i wanted to sit inside her light and beg it to blind me
to burn away my own
that night, in the hellish isolation of my room
i unravelled from my lonely knot
into a deliberate stitch
girl and girl and girl
and girl and
girl and
girl