Yukon, My Darling

March 2026

Wrecked over distances

I stake out the cabin in satellites 

but my geography is rainy. 

Dear territory: (trembling) 

carry him over the abyss, 

promise me tenderness.

 

I tell myself the patchwork quilt

stitches souls into its cosmos.

He vomited three times, 

strangling anaphylaxis.

I wonder what ocean smells like 

on wind smashing inland.

 

Tundra comes from Finnish, tunturi, 

treeless plain. There is no growing 

season in those oscillations. 

Twenty years ago I designed 

his lungs, expelled to light 

breath, and we inhabited one season.

 

How bloody are days we feel alive.

All of cosmos is a theory.

 

 

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