SHADOW VALLEY | Zack Kopp

walking home tonight it’s like writing a
long letter about going home
to the moon

    tattooing it into the earth with my feet
    for the moon to look down at and read

outside tonight in Denver a family of Quiet Things
is spitting silence all over the streets and
  oh
   God
I am a baby of blazing light
          and I wander down here in the darkness

I put my lips to the bottle
and the bottle spreads its wings

           and we fly down the valley together in love