(for sam miller)
i listened to Meshell + Kate Bush on repeat
when you left
something about pitch or
the way you’d whisper + hold my hand
in the afterlight
a lamp post flickered
on the edge of campus between brutalism
+ the Arts i stood
watched it glitch
waited for someone to walk by
to share the long cerulean dance
a world in words will do
you wrote: i wish Morgan had a regular gig
Bobbie Short at the Carlyle
so I could go
whenever i needed to be
cheered up