Leave your name and number

Leave your name and number and I won’t call you back Each star a message if it blinks you can recover it like the answerphone’s indicator that you’ve missed a call Stars just high enough to break the surface of the water should they fall Your breathing too loud impatient to be somewhere else hanging lanterns compassionate faces like moons an alcoholic darkness smothers any little light of hope chemicals and intuition dueling it out at 3am recognize their familiar taste a heavy pressing against the forehead affirmations can’t compete it is not their nature