We sit on subways and hold our breath. Don't hold your breath.

Don't you keep yourself out

or in

some starless place
without me,

the faithful moon,
reduced to a crust
in your shadow


You, fat planet
been gone so long


Don't you keep yourself out

or in

some twilit place,
without me,

the foolish moon,
cruising
to the same old beat

in the heat of
your glow.