Todd Swift
Myth
Because I never got
what I wanted
I took what
you had, instead.
It was like
sucking a hollow egg
out, to get at yolk,
but the creaming air
was cold, mostly
not there, or only there.
Meanwhile, you, like
most of your kind, continued—
getting my first desire.
Then it hit me—
I should have stayed
in my lost orbit,
to have crossed
that dark star |
