the lightkeeper

from invocations by cave dweller

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I dreamed of you once. Somewhere between the static of two worlds, I held your hand under those draped Christmas lights. Outside those old windows, the sky short-circuited and the thunder echoes liked bones cracking and how the branches splinter. You sat in awe with the aspirations of my life. Aspirations I never took to mean anything.
You sank into the comfort of that dusty couch, once white with flowers and then caked in sepia tone from that old building. Atavistic architecture antiquated past its architect. The laughing celestial being who spoke in Gorgon rhyme and cyclopean rhythm. Perhaps Zeus would have been intrigued...Hera, not so much.
At nightfall, we descended that bed of rocks. The sea folded under moon beams and the froth caressed our heels. That freezing northern embrace. You told me once that nothing is forever. But I still counted your footsteps as they tracked in the sand and held on to their hopeless shape even as we danced the rest of the night on tomorrow's ashes. It hurt to watch you fade. The only way you could have disappeared any faster was if it began to rain.
Now I'm down there, back on that shore and I swear I can see you in the water. You turn to me and outreach your hand. That pale, lifeless hand. Soft, pearled, and empty. But I cannot drown with you.
I cannot drown with you.

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from invocations, released November 21, 2022
-to the ghost of Seguin Light. we can still hear that piano.

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