I'm impatient, jittering at daybreak

jumping my way from yesterday to next week

tearing through the gauzy fabric of the hours

I didn't sleep last night

too busy knitting the skeins of time

I wrote a little, read some strings of words

It's not easy looking in the mirror at three a.m.

eyes puffy, cheeks crisscrossed by tired lines

behind me empty air and light rain falling

I am alone and you are dead

sleep escapes me

all our dreams unravelled

knit and purl, hook and flinch

scroll and furl and wave and cinch

together forever you and I

we stitch our seamless cloudless sky