If I'm - Sea Oleena

You led the way to off-white walls

And wooden floors and open doors

And birds and birds and birds

And all with dusty backs

Among these books all leather-jacketed

But I could only find, in my own time

The way to Arizona’s yellow tent

Afloat upon the lake

And I’m alone but in another way

I found a black bat tangled in a birch tree

If I’m a body, you’re a blanket on me

If I’m a forest, you’re the field at my feet

If I’m a corner that the dark backs into

You’re the darkness that this corner clings to

If I’m the mountain with the moon above me

I, the mountain, choose the moon to envy

And there’s a line on my palm

I know it’s not very long

I know it’s not what you want

But there’s a light in the dark

And there’ll be light if I’m gone