Red Shift

Red Shift
You lean out of reach
Name in my teeth
Like iron and peach

Your eyes were twin red traffic lights
Over wet black stone
We crossed on a dare
Then you walked right through my bones
Your breath on my neck
Was a stolen cigarette
I coughed up constellations
On a night I can't forget

You step back
Miles in a single stride
Our hands miss
Pressed to different sides

Red Shift
You blur right out of my orbit
Drifting
You turn my blue heart to orbit debris
Call it distance
Call it cruel science
Red Shift
You move and you move from me

We talked in ash and neon
Empty parking lots and rain
You traced slow planets on my wrist
With a cheap black pen and pain
You swore the morning was a rumor
And we lived outside its law
Now sunrise tastes like tinfoil
On the bitten edge of jaw

You step back
Space in a single breath
Our mouths meet
Somewhere between life and death

Red Shift
You blur right out of my orbit
Drifting
You turn my blue heart to orbit debris
Call it distance
Call it cruel science
Red Shift
You move and you move from me

Maybe this is how stars drown
Not fire not flare
Just pulled apart quiet
Tendon by prayer
I count the lines in your old coat
Like dead satellites in a line
Every number that I reach
Adds another year of time

Red Shift
You blur right out of my orbit
Drifting
You turn my blue heart to orbit debris
Call it distance
Call it cruel science
Red Shift
You move and you move from me

Name in my teeth
Iron and peach
Red Shift
Too far to reach