topography, n. (1) To scale you like a mountain, stretch myself out on the banks of your thighs, swing from your veins, climb your ribs, lose myself in the humidity of your eyes, yes, to make a landing strip out of your spine, familiarize myself with the color of your bone marrow, wave hello to your liver and pancreas. Will you remain at 98.6 degrees, high summer, if I can stop and take a photo with your heart? (2) The mapping of you. Every hair on your head, the entire forest, the soft feather down of it against my cheek; the exact placement of your collarbones, shallow pools to drink from. I want exact coordinates of your shoulders, your sternum’s flat plain, all that thinness, all limbs and skin and eyes and hands, you are all hands. Skeleton, you are my friend. (3) Keeping you in my head is the easy part. I crawl out of you, clutching a bit of your left coronary artery and there’s a bit of wisdom tooth in my hair, one of your tears is caught on an eyelash, and in my pocket, like a child, I’ve got some of the veins in your wrists tied up like licorice and a small spoonful of cerebral cortex rests beneath my tongue like sugar: souvenirs. This land is your land, this land is my land.  

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