Volcano Fly

In the latest hour of the night
she leaves him alone on the bed
where he is asleep and she cannot.
She thinks of him as a volcano, but because they are one
she is the eruption
and scares herself by believing she will one day implode
and destroy them both.


He has the same fear
and sometimes wakes up the instant her body isn't touching his.
He watches her leave, conjuring the words to beg her back but he never uses them.
He wants to ask her where she goes
He wants to ask her why she goes
He wants to ask her why she is going to explode and destroy them both.

Her eyes are like house flies with transluctant wings
and in that they will inevitably die once every twenty-four hours.
He believes sometimes that she can fly if she wants
and wonders if that is what she does when she leaves him at night.
Except, when she returns her eyes are usually glistening with tears
and he doesn't think that he would cry if he could fly.
No, he thinks she leaves him on the twenty-fourth hour so that she can die
and return to him alive,
but only for a day.