Rooftop

Hands dusted of peach pit,
Gravel, and feathered things 
Which perch in souls, 

Tiptoes clutching ledges, 
Rawboned, everything that is us
Groped for the courage to leap. 

You examined the sprawl below, 
The wrinkled visage of landscape and fractal cities, 
Watched the people pursuing the horizon,
And determined that the world was flat. 

Pulses jagged, 
Vertigo in every direction, 
A fraying tidbit of moment,    
All we ever wanted to do was fall.

I remember looking at my toes and staring for a long time. 

You didn’t laugh when I asked you, 
But you didn’t say yes. 

We walked back home.