To have a tomorrow.
And then, to have another one.

To stay ahead of tempests.
To mind the gap.

Dark tucks of night.
The silence of the witching hour.

Startles from sleep.
Very little maintenance.

Doodles as anodynes.
Black and white placebos.

Smiles reflexive,
the half-life of a mask.

Large hearts, and unsent letters.
Measuring tapes for the intangible.

Missing persons on the sides of wine boxes.
Little feet dancing ghost-like under grapevines.