posts tagged "poem"
592.
i count my way to you
in showers,
in bites,
in polished teeth…
remind myself i have more fingers
than days between us;
less years yet lived than left
to be with you.
591.
will we fall open
to each other again
like well-worn books,
crack our spines and cough
our dust
until we are clear and endless
stories
shared and cherished?
590.
and though it seems like
you’re hardly there, i know you are
lingering
not knowing where, or why
i hide
not knowing why i can’t rise up
while i stay buried not knowing
why you don’t
pry up floorboards
to pull me out.
589.
some hearts wrinkle up,
fold into themselves as age
is soaked up through skin.
588.
tucked snug beneath
the rug and pressed flat below
the floorboard are
all those moments
i waited, and couldn’t bear seeing
my reflection
in the silvering hours.
587.
i write about your pictures more
and more than i write about
you, because i have come
to know them better, because
i have come to live in the bent line
connecting the dip of your armpit
to the ridge of your hip, because
i have come to know missing you better
than loving you.
586.
three
years
later:
i smoked your brand
beneath a blanket of sweat
and thunder storms;
it was staler than the memory
of your lips around my ear
and lonelier than the night
pressed against your back.
585.
that bruise behind my knee lied
to you, but you had kissed away
blood from that cut around
the bend before the blueblack
secret pooled under your retinas,
so you had the essence of me
buried beneath your fingerprints
all along.
584.
who are you now?
can you be satisfied
sucking fashion spreads off screens,
licking the bones of meatless models
like they will fill that pit beneath your ribs
you empty
once you’ve savored taste
and imagined
the fleeting feeling of a full
mouth will ease the pain
of a sunken stomach?
583.
i knew
you
i breathed
the air you exhaled
i combed
your hair with my fingers
i blessed
your forehead with kisses…
but we breathe
fire now.
you cropped
your mane, my nails
grew jagged
our lips have been
around the world
and get restless
when we meet.
