Latest Northography post: Touched

sideways talk and spots of
you
without a drowning beat
of chi-chat yet

we say our words
in digits pressed
writing fingertip messages
against Betelgeuse freckles

on milky way hands
dappled with moles
like black holes,

some things from fingernail
to feeble wrist
are more universal
than the black discoed
ceiling only
chasing faces into
the cupboard corners

and hands into each other.