these strange days

[ from Skinny Dipping in Daylight ]

from the Observatory, Nashville | photograph x Cory Basil

i let you in
close enough
to watch me sleep

and you left a hole in me

i let you dance
close enough
for skin to blend

and you left a hole in me

i let you look
close enough 
to see the love i hide

and now i watch the smoke rise
from where you left a hole in me.

Cory Basil

[ first published in Skinny Dipping in Daylight ]