sunlight
floods the bed
we wade
into the billows
and drown
peeking through
midnight's velvet drapes
a spotlight moon
scans the theatre
for fallen stars
the stormy thrum
of our quickening breath
as your lips
wend their way
to the rain in my breast
thirteen
her first boyfriend's
hard slap
some of our memories
are burning brands
he gave me roses
and larks ascending
I offered tanka
bound with strands
of my silvered hair
an eagle
carries off a lamb
still struggling
the new mother grieves
her lost baby
our initials
tattooed on sand
b e t w e e n
heart-shaped tracks
of white-tailed deer
with ink stick
and wolf hair brush
on rice paper
I paint the unlikeliness
of my married name
mourning's
warp and weft
woven
into the tapestry
of war-torn faces
lonesome
these delta blues
blowing through
the broken reeds
of my heart
e x h a l i n g
the unspeakable
slipping-down pain
i n h a l i n g
the unknowable
stripping-down bone
rearranging my (negative) space
ruler
measures the tread of infidels
and your infidelities
incremental reign of words
affection over-ruled
broken-thumbed dictator
the judge declares you out of order
paper clips
clip clippings of your clipped words
to my origami wings
paper-quilled intimate intricacies
bent out of shape
i am undone
by your undoing
tape
unfurls over cutting edge
sticky tongue catching the fly
tearing the tip
zipping the lip
securing your crime scene
and sealing my evident fate
keyboard
warning
experts advise that using
may cause serious injury
while turning over and shaking out contrapuntal crumbs
a scattering of unplayed scales
falls from my eyes and fingertips
white out
rubs out the road to there from here
in an icy blast of shrouded blindness
equidistant
pointed to pointless point of no return
we listen to the static noise
erasing everything i meant that you would never say
staples
hold documented scars together
never dissolving or resolving
punctures wounding
both the paper and the skin
thoughtless perishables behind closed doors
fill my emptiness of self
screen
reflects my distorted
fingerprinted face
viral truth and lies
lies as thick as the dust on my illusions and your collusions
first the shield
then the reveal
cords
entangling and untangling
electrical and umbilical
i wear the frayed fabric
faded ridges worn down by the misgivings of forgiving
you chop and bind the rotten wood
and wither the blossom's bud
pen
cages the page
confining lines
between the gates of prologue and epilogue
wielding this instrument of might or might not
treastise broken
indelible ink blots the pain on my escutcheon
trash
overflows with used tissue kisses
world stained with acrid acid tears
plastic oceans and emotions
sweet rot begot and forgot
i watch your ashes drift away
on burning waves of truest blue forget-me-nots
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