So many nights now he wilts, boiling from inside. But so goes the in extremis of a young heart. A spiel-less future will tell him he should’ve known her. But time, despite the hostilities of 5am (despite time itself), will continue to un-spool shadowy little windows on still more failures to come. Chin up, lover boy. The skies await you again, posthaste. See. Don’t yearn so much. The clouds you and mama used to find animals and other such cunning in are all blown realms and stalled explosions. Even so, the reader rarely would’ve noticed such a pained statement in his former city. He would’ve scoffed at it, quietly, having known too many of the hers to whom that sidewalk makes plea. But the new city, where a sympathetic vantage bears itself so easily and freely in the reader’s new mind, makes him stop, knowing love well now, but life much less so, as the buildings dream on the Fourth like explosions worried back to life across the skyline, as vast and conflicted as a language looking back.