our fossils hardened intimately
whenever we found each other
lifetime after the next:
a rock weighted with you
on a Jurassic coastline
under a parasol I skipped
your body from palm to wave
lifetime before the last:
my damsel wings
made lithographic
impressions on the grain of you
we kept missing each other
a few million years at a time
but always caught, always
always radiant
we decided to fall
in love one night
abstaining from memories
of our spines and other
yet more delicate bones
mistaking drift of continents
for predestination
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Rick Hollon (they/them or fey/fem) is a nonbinary intersex queer author, editor, and parent from the American Midwest. Feir writing has appeared in perhappened, Prismatica, (mac)ro(mic), Sledgehammer Lit, and other small-press publications. Find them on Twitter @SailorTheia.