Take Me With You by Courtney Kampa
(1987-2022)

“Put your ribs into the wind when you say it.

Expose a pearl-bellied throat to the sky.

Take me with you.

Better to say I'll come along too, or hey cool, I'm walking that direction anyway, but never

Take me with you.

Never to show the heart so translucent and clear—an orb of glass, burned and blown thin enough to shatter —”