submerged teeth

Mickey "The Flying Busman" Mahan

tonight a comet brightened the black sky a luminous streak of exploding light steering among stars a celestial Marco Polo fearlessly sailing its fate through the galaxy

unconcerned with opinions of eyes or telescopes laughing at the nomenclature used to nail it down one blink and it’s gone

sailing now behind his closed wrinkled eyelids through a deeper space more mysterious than sky cushioned in the infallible security of bedpillows

illuminating every tear still floating his soul lips he never kissed soak his face with affection hands he never held rub knots out of his back eyes he never looked into open on the pillow beside him

navigating among palsied desires he’s sailing on blood thinner than water while his submerged teeth sink in the water glass beside the bed