If being drained twilight thin was a metaphor
then my veins are what appears
when it can no longer be called twilight.
I believe I know what time of the day that happens
It’s when I sometimes return from the office
after sitting in the traffic
only as much to miss the pastel orange
fading from the west.
When I flip my hand to unbuckle my wrist watch
I find thin stretch of a pale river
written on my veins,
the river mouth tastes
dust on the rim of a cup forgotten.
My throat is a well that sings in echoes,
each note a promise demolished into debris.
Something very hunger-like
wears the disguise of memory.
I envision my trembling hands
cupping the dark,
trying to pull the weight of absence.
I drink again, hoping to drown.














