See You Tonight

see you tonight, he said,
hyphenating the last word,
biting on the feeble dash,
scattering crumbs of day and dark
into the space between us,
and then he was dropping
sheets of afternoon light from the brink,
entombing us in golden haze,
double locking the doors,
hiding the key from the moon,
there is a way promises
can be kept,
slowly darkness will be forgotten,
dusk will be the creasing of a brow,
and the shadow of a raven’s wing,
the exclamation
of a sun nailed to a high beam,
forever, a speck in its unseeing eye,
the clock, its arms spread awkwardly,
a smile frozen on its four-eighteen face,
and to-night in unequal halves
still swearing a togetherness,
lying in the fragmented dust.

there is a way promises
can be kept.