Solitude II

In the dusk of the mattress firm website you can toggle a size greater than California king – "a bed so large your body will think it's a country", "foam so absorbent you'll never know the other is moving", "a viscous latitude so dense you'll drown in your own breath"

No one knocks on this door where I am both the welcome and the closed latch – I inhabit a country with no borders its passport is unreadable Every word I write erases the previous chapter until I am only a question mark stranded in a sentence that advances alone