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  • Joshua Beckman, “[Lying in bed I think about you]”

    Joshua Beckman, “[Lying in bed I think about you]”

    Lying in bed I think about you,

    your ugly empty airless apartment

    and your eyes. It’s noon, and tired

    I look into the rest of the awake day

    incapable of even awe, just

    a presence of particle and wave,

    just that closed and deliberate

    human observance. Your thin fingers

    and the dissolution of all ability. Lay   

    open now to only me that white body,

    and I will, as the awkward butterfly,

    land quietly upon you. A grace and

    staying. A sight and ease. A spell

    entangled. A span. I am inside you.

    And so both projected, we are now

    part of a garden, that is part of a   

    landscape, that is part of a world

    that no one believes in.

    Joshua Beckman, “[Lying in bed I think about you]”