In the Theater

When I was a thin boy I dreamed
I had dangerous bones,
sharpened them over a prone
brother, crunched fist
into his heart.
When I talked
to the girl with the silver glasses,
my elbows melted
into my sides, I couldn’t name
even half the quiet knot
I had turned into.
Squeezed close to her in Pearl
Harbor’s dark, I found I could reach
from my own body and know
for the first time
my hands are tender.
Leaned into her, my ear to her ear,
my face pressed so flush
next to hers in the theater,
I saw bombs go to fog
through her glasses,
fire turn to milk in the sea.