i.
there is a closeness in each entry
of the book of conversations
which only happened in the heads
of their participants, but
it is a closing closeness.
ii.
amidst all the phases
of being, I've ever felt
myself to be a vapor:
compressible, expansive,
desiring to be breathed,
to dance unseen
through a busy room
reacting with everything,
tending instead to go
over people's heads.