Red Shift You lean out of reach Name in my teeth Like iron and peach Your eyes were twin red traffic lights Over wet black stone We crossed on a dare Then you walked right through my bones Your breath on my neck Was a stolen cigarette I coughed up constellations On a night I can't forget You step back Miles in a single stride Our hands miss Pressed to different sides Red Shift You blur right out of my orbit Drifting You turn my blue heart to orbit debris Call it distance Call it cruel science Red Shift You move and you move from me We talked in ash and neon Empty parking lots and rain You traced slow planets on my wrist With a cheap black pen and pain You swore the morning was a rumor And we lived outside its law Now sunrise tastes like tinfoil On the bitten edge of jaw You step back Space in a single breath Our mouths meet Somewhere between life and death Red Shift You blur right out of my orbit Drifting You turn my blue heart to orbit debris Call it distance Call it cruel science Red Shift You move and you move from me Maybe this is how stars drown Not fire not flare Just pulled apart quiet Tendon by prayer I count the lines in your old coat Like dead satellites in a line Every number that I reach Adds another year of time Red Shift You blur right out of my orbit Drifting You turn my blue heart to orbit debris Call it distance Call it cruel science Red Shift You move and you move from me Name in my teeth Iron and peach Red Shift Too far to reach