the sky settles like an ocean of blueberry
juice squeezed on cosmos too much light
pollution mires the stars to see their glint
still i know they slosh and twinkle
and beyond infinite space You cup
Your hands ready to transfigure
liquid night into curtain
drawn wide how you split Red Sea
thief in the night to snatch souls
of the chosen invisible palm arched
to pincer through this peaceful evening assailants
also invisible a string of robberies
at gunpoint break ins
once our glovebox contents scattered by morning
i triple click
key fob grip head swivel
to eye a mugger stalking my blindspot
slouch out of the parking lot
intercept a rapture
of drunk Boston University undergrads i digress
yield to their revelry
heed a sedan and SUV
cross the street could it be now
You ease open atmosphere and spacescape
laceration of heavenly light to tractor beam
the righteous toward home
i try not to fumble keys in the locks
thriller villains and gods
punish lost dexterity twist and push
the door admits my body into the glow
of the hallway light a moth
my only companion flickering illumination with shadows
gods and gunmen easy on their trigger fingers