boulevard masséna

Calum O’Connell

clunking fingerweight & pianokeys,
separate hands from mouth, speak

from touch. slip through, suncaught
dust, toward fever dreams & clean

sheets, toasted bread & coffees
warbling in the duskbreak. until

we paint again, trace every circle
hourlong across our walls, faces

blushing in the lamplight—
tiptoe to semiopen windows.

(we clasp palms beside moonrays
& streetroad rustle, still ashen

in our sleep.)

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Calum O’Connell (he/they) is a queer writer and postgraduate student from Ireland, tweeting @caloconnell.

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