‘Moments like this/I wish that you were mine
And I find that all the tears that you have cried were mine’

-- from the song, “Perfecting the Art of Common Ground” by Ultravox

Moments Like This

Zero hour
and the back of my eyes
kisses my dream: tinted
butterfly pirouettes
and kaleidoscope tears
cartwheel my cheek. Mid-
night and darkness colors
my chalked outline
in the greasy street. Believe
the scene; taste the odor,
know the crux
of my crucifixion
knee-deep in the guttural scarlet sounds
of passing