borderlands
tender_square he’s trekking through dreamscapes,
an intrepid explorer cartographing
cities of self. gone so long i can’t

conjure his face when he’s right
in front of me; his eyes beam
across their new discoveries, never

catching me in their grandiose
sweep. how often i’ve accused
him of this desire, to return

to a memory of us no longer
sovereign state, when i’m the one
drawing a boundary around our love.
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