Ain't no hat-size no how

Neon dark (mask)
              once the morning
in thin hours
                              surrenders
fists of damp sand
caught on the crippled pulse
muscle signature / breath
being the
              long way home
after all this time
                              I knew by heart
reading her lips in a dream
white sky heat
spraypainted on the concrete
seawall
              brief rain shower
thunder
out there on the dark
water (neon) like
I said