blasting off, leaving the home planet again

in the emptiness of my home, work was

another music project and two films.

went to counseling,

had to clean out an old dresser

the gate to the other kingdom opened,

I learned it never had to be fully locked

saw her face in a mirror every night,

we’ll look at windows together soon.

I’ll miss the quietness of the winter.

I’ll miss how my voice echoes

in the empty acres of my town.

because I finally found peace with SAD,

I instead fell in love with its slow tempo,

a cadence for tenderness and intimacy.

however, I have to land once more in the

compact and deafening planet

so, I must embody anew the summer’s

callousness and ambition, this time in a

glacial metropolis.

I’m glad I could reach out to family again

instead of feeling I needed to shut down that chapter permanently.