new moon in Gemini

I didn’t recognize her

her eyes uncrinkled 

the corners of her mouth drifting 

back down her face 

without it

smoothing her out and covering her up 

I couldn’t see my self in her 

and when her hands, on my body, felt like intruders 

when I breathed her in, longing for home, and got a waft of something unfamiliar instead 

when the outside world wiped stranger all over her

she threatened the others 

so, if I tried to eat her

vanish her into a pile of bones 

could you blame me?