The Antiphon of You: Restoration for former silences

1. I file sweaters from yesterday in the [next]morning much like I file you in my closet of bodies sketched but never spilling. In twenty hours of sleep, I awake with this heart being the last to feel plastered or flaked upon because it’s new coat is the only thing I know how to wear today.
   
   
2. My love,
   
   
3. I was
   
   
4. a wave.
   
   
5. I am not sure what I was willing to give
6. not that time or physics would even
7. let them matter in getting what I want;
8. knotted, masked & smudged by
9. what or whom I do not need.
   
   
   
   
10. This wave is
11. Still and slow and thick and
12. heading outward with no gradient
13. until they reference it with
    
14. the color, the incline and affect
15. stitched and splashed
    
16. upon axis
17. of globes
18. in academia.