earthquakes

you can tell that i'm choking on
the heart i've swallowed when it says
how you came to me on that friday
dress that tells everybody
nobody's around
to stop us

i kissed at the fabric of air
that so easily wrapped around you
wrapped me to you
let me wrap you
i slide the seabed under your land
and you cry as you lift up
from the spine

it's science
earthquakes beget islands.