Tar

It felt more as a slowing A sudden nothing of velocity Passing from air into water, into honey, into tar And breathing tar does strange things To one's perception of time We breathed tar as only lovers breathe tar Oh, let our limits be smudges Let our convictions be gaseous and vague Skinless others, oils on waters Walls made up of air, made of doldrums Made of hunger, made of Aether Made of hydrogen, made of pollen And made of exhale, made of exhale Oh, let our glances be fixless Let our motion be expansive and faint We never could locate a skin or boundary There just ain't nothing to press or be pressed by There was a momentary dip in the air pressure When passing from one body to its other One body to its other We had touched as only atmospheres touch We had touched as only atmospheres touch We had touched as only atmospheres touch We had touched