Sunflakes

(What It’s Like to Let a Part of Yourself Die)

Bits of your sun 
Flake off 
See-saw, slow-motion
Disappearing into dark space
Far beyond the eyes’ roll

And you were so scared
To lift each hand from that
One spot, as if
You’d find a wound there
That someone else might see
Not
This hot spot underneath,
Wanting to radiate