YOUR ABSENCE IS A MEETING PLACE, BY Niamh BURNS

​meet me on the split skin of my palm
where you touched me— 
meet me in the fractured light;

where the bridges of my tongue
have split from screaming.
meet me in the noise of your mouth

humming like a sweet thing.
meet me at the edge of morning
before we lost it all.
​
meet me where the bones are soft.
meet me in the scattered light
where everything we love is softly burning.

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Niamh Burns is a queer, non-binary Irish-Canadian poet, fiction writer, and philosophy student. Their work has been featured in Across The Margin (selected best fiction 2019), Visitant Literary Journal, and The Anti-Languorous Project.