Monday, May 26, 2014

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Sorting photographs on the floor into collages
Of fathers, brothers, cousins, grandmothers, daughters
Doorbell rings like a rope to the overboard
Deluge of undulating flotsam bobbing

Can I use your shower?
Interrogative of the only woman with a key to home
Flag ascends the pole
Pull in pull away, codes and locks

Eye shadow like an elixir of cardio pulmonary resuscitation
Electrifying foyers into recollections of cattle brands
Baby done set metal in the kiln with me
Magnetized in the shrapnel and endorphins

Mesmerized to cannibalize a lifetime into kernels of fear
About creationism, evolution, layers only excavated during summer
Come artic winter the desolation swath of white eviscerates
The room for the missing links to find breathing as the tide

Freezes over as the seal mermaid-dogs of yesterdays
Find no time to pretend in the vacuums of silence
About progeny, god, and literature
Posting quotes in priority

I am drawn to you and see the cocaine sun rise and set in your lungs
Like carcinogens bringing cancer in what we each believe eternity parades
To coats of melanin, sexual genetic imprints, and books about shepherds
How long can I live in an allegory?

Where vulnerability parades like that wave passing over gaps in the ice
Swallowing the drown of knowing not
How to be Tiktaalik and walk up from the riverbed
But to know when I lie in the stillness of night

Next to your body, I am drawn in heart to hold, to be held
To offer this love, to whisper as you wish

And forget the origin of the species 

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