In through your nose and down your pharynx, pulled rapidly into alveoli air sacs, pressed up against the wall like a lonesome schoolgirl dreaming, picked up by your beating heart, through the leftside of your love, through arteries, through limbs, through tiny threads, squeezed dry, then tasked again. loaded up with the unwanted, sent through veins, hurtling onward, hurtling back into the home I’ve made your heart. Into alveoli air sacs again, up through your larynx again, touching tongue touching teeth touching lips— you launched me forward in your exhale. Nothing but air. you don’t say a word but you fill up the room.