On Running For Your Life in the Dim Before Dawn

We ran until stars went through our lungs.

Until our legs had the motion stuck inside of them like seasick

A burn both sharp and blurry in our calves.

The feeling of drinking gin too fast.

And we knew, as we had known for years--since ninth grade science class, to be exact-- that the first law of kinetics is this: objects in motion stay in motion.

And all along the diving hills there was no use holding back.