formalities

Looking at, instead of the
bearing moon in a dawning
night, faint traces of the past,
breaking soon over fault lines
in the form of vast constellations
detailing impressions of hair leading
to a figure that closely resembles
the sun as it reddens the blue sky,
or the time I read something to you
while hiding my head in a blanket and
you pulled the blanket down
and said something like stop