my becoming has come back,

come around, so evaporate

slowly, again,

the watershed torrential

where, between us, is no space

a limitless difference

in a downpouring of starlight

i scout the fall-out

while tracking our progress

sliding slowly beneath the

sonar

the implication of coming

together lost in

intent concentration

and, porcelain light

slanting between us,

we, short of oxygen,

free-floating-

we are utterly stunned and alert-

knowing ourselves despite

being sheltered to one another.

Sarah Gajkowski (TX)  is the author of Distracted and Other Poems (Diversity, Inc. Press). Her work has appeared in Pebble Lake Review, Scribendi, the National Review, and elsewhere. She has been named the guest judge for poetry in the 2005 Pebble Lake Review Poetry & Fiction Contest.