Bones morph

transcend matter

stone to stone

we are breathing

fossils.

Ardipithecus

Kaddaba

Ramidus

Australopithecus

Homo Habilis

descending

millennia, born

to shore up

rift valley.

Our love

is like

bone:

once formed

it lurks in

the strata

of my brain

ancient pathways

where neurons

transmit

our connection.

I feel you

in the night

wake to find

an echo.

This arm once

held your head

cradled gaze of

eyes now dead

to me.

In that moment

I believed in the

lie of ‘ever’.

Forever in

my mind

hidden from

this light

by that old

adage

time

&

country.