Toneloop

The road swallowing sky

Your radio played the things we thought we loved
That familiar feeling tomorrow won't be okay
Settling in my stomach
Somewhere between the bourbon and the gas station burrito
It happens again, you forgot to add water
Overheated, both car and boy
Emergency, flashing in red

We walk for miles, tones of Poe imbued 

Our bodies twisted, overgrowth in the forests of adolescence

The black of night between our lips

Beguiled boy stiff in Sunday's best

The wolves releasing chambers of heavy air 

Echoing the soft intentional vowels inside your mouth

You cling to my skin

The hair tightly pulling away from my arm

It's okay, I understand

I grab your head and wince moonlight drunk

Suddenly, I forget the car broken down by highway marker nine

Then, you swallow