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  Step outside

  This hasn't happened in a too-long time

 A new warm wind has pulled your soul from mine

 Disintegrating into green

Fields of flies

 They wave their wire wings against my thighs

 My eyelids, weapons against all un-kinds

 It makes me wonder where you've been

Through the pines

Across the coast

 Chase the ocean-line

My toes are tapping

 As your words unwind

 I've stayed exactly where I stand

 And when we stop

 It feels as though

 We're rolling backwards

 Down the road

 When I'm still

 My chest implodes

 My eyes rolled backwards

 Rolling backwards

Back inside

 I study miles of atlas pages

Blind

My cells are stirring

 And I've made my mind up

 To go down the lane, again

Let me lie

Against your shoulder

 In the desert night

Beneath the boulder

 Of an old test site

 And try to ask me where I've been

I remind you

 Of the story of the sailor's bride

Who finally stole the boat

 And rode the tide

 Into the welcoming ocean

 And when she stopped

 It felt as though

 The seas had swallowed

 Her ankles

 When I'm still

 I feel just so

 Rolling backwards

 I'm rolling backwards

 When we stop

 It feels as though

 We're rolling backwards

 Down the road

 When I'm still

 My chest implodes

 Rolling backwards

 I'm rolling backwards

 When we stop

 It feels as though

 We're rolling backwards

 Down the road