by Kieran Collier
our skin glows amber in the room
of the boy with hair that has remained untrimmed
for too many months and the speckled chin
with orange wisps like fireflies if fireflies
hid in dark bushes while the children were playing.
His bed is bigger than yours, like an ocean
you cannot understand the scope of because
nothing is blinking on the horizon. You
don’t know what to do with all the room.
He spreads his body out and you try to fill
the empty spaces because that’s what you’ve
always thought you should do with him.
When the both of you fall asleep, you curl into
one tangled mess of sheets and elbows.
You call this making continents, he calls it love.