Before the Kingdom Comes

I spent all of yesterday morning in the Emergency Room with asma.  I didn't feel better until today at 2am.  This is what I wrote today:

Before the Kingdom Comes

I must pursue your body

as far as two bodies fight

over your dark alley

and dangerously day

has contact with light that does not belong to it

—belonging to itself— possessed

to the degree that the demolition of spells

does not forgive the sound of words

I must pursue your body

as far as the end of its streets

where greetings create corners with the wind

and the impossible security of known hands

gives life to wishes—constellations

in the single balance of the shadow