I find myself tunnelling
back on myself.
Funnelling compressed feelings
into cramped spaces.
Delving into the past,
and scratching to
the depths.
Throwing over my shoulder
the dirt of today.
When I find you…
I shall have a filthy face,
shredded flesh for fingers.
But you will know:
I drilled to the other side
of the earth to find you.
(And I would do it again,
to feel your fresh cut grass
graze on my cheek.)