Two Poems

Accept the part of me that is you —Alejandra Pizarnik

I walk inside your shadow

a long blue lilac leans out of me

your life over mine

from a high angle

the elongated grammars

this is the river

this is the sun that grows around my skull

this is the hooped light that peels my face

out of water

I expected a rush upward but you just stood there

in the bright ends of your hair

a collapsed rainbow between your feet

how

over the small ridge of the body

to let go

in the shallow blue pan

I touch the silver

thread crashing at the bottom

of the hourglass the stiff whorl

of your fingertip