I want to revise her

It’s because of her me-ness

Her thinking her less than what she is

Me thinking me more

We are both wrong

and mired by shadows

 

Halfway through the novel I still can’t see her hands

or face really

never the eyes

they are unoccupied and waiting

 

she becomes even less visible

I become more

Until finally we turn in on ourselves

Her fiction sifting through my non

Like the contents of an hourglass moving steadily beyond atmosphere