LI.

i shut my eyes
and you shut off the headlights
on that coastal night road.
crushing sand.

not a light around us,
and you shut them off —
the breathless thrill of free fall —

i sail the highway,
tracing that anachronistic bridge
to feel
to find you.
i see the outline

of where we walked.
our dissolving island prints —
we were there.

the hushed passing glow.
where was your mind?
so close,
yet as far as the constellations i create —