we are skeletal
lovers, curled
like spindles

wrapped around each
other, a wheel

our skin so bruised
from hitting into
each other, trying
to merge...

We floated
through the cool,
black
paradise of the stars.

We kissed underneath
the light
of the meteorites.
We kissed amongst dreaming
nebulae.
...

Who was it?
Who was it who fell?
Fell, yes, blazing with shame and beauty with wings aflame,
Fearing nothing, but knowing his end was coming all the same,
Body marked with solar...