Twilight zone
starts from around midnight just ‘til dawn,
when we are safely by ourselves
when time is a stowaway
the watch negligent (and neglected)
the darkness outside reveals
nothing of the hours
you lean a littlecloser
touching heads, arms, shoulders
silently agreed upon
as raindrops melt into ocean
*
we shrink the world
cut reali ties and set ourselves afloat
these four mundane walls
form our buoyant vessel
our fox burrow, rabbit hole
traveling out to sea
on the winds of goodwill:
there is nothing to think about here
no past
no subsequently,
only this long, elusive rising,
the horizon of a new land
*
there are pillow islands
and down muffled words slow
a flimsy, persistent bridge
shaking with drowsy
fossils unearthed restored slowly,
in warm arms of sympathy
two sardines in an ample can;
you choose contact over space
I think, or maybe I imagine,
within the confusion of a tangled quilt
your front grazing my back
your lips,my hair
*
birds tweet an alarm inversed -
the sky lightens, time to sleep.
*
when we wake there are only two friends in one bed
and something else
not quite alive
but never fully dead.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
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i really like this one!!! and i'll have you know that there are so many potential Moby-Dick allusions in this text... you must read it sometime. i think "like rain drops on water" is a bit weak though!
ReplyDeleteagree with the comment on 'like raindrops on water'! also did you mean for 'little' to be... littler? or in a different font? i kinda like it more subtle, actually, except for the realities bit which is lovely.
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