hearty friendships
send laughter
drifting over the lake
i had people
to cackle
in the dark together
i'm that person
no longer
i grasp for lonesome smiles
but if i weren't
a ghost now
it wouldn't
blow through me
a suffusion
of peals
in between
my membranes
all my empty
vague places
bump into
fresh atoms
now i'm made of
warm beer breath
heard over
the waves