From “Resisting the Pull”
…You know you will suffer as long
as it takes, until you uncouple
from the magnets of breath and beat,
until you shake the hive of death
for its sting, until you stare
in its eyes, wanting and unafraid,
trembling in need, the way a man’s
hand might tremble reaching
toward a cheek it has wanted
to touch for light years.
Patrick Carrington
