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Unfaithful
ReplyDeletePerhaps I should learn a foreign tongue
Explore an exotic location
Unfamiliar and pleasing
an impromptu French lesson
I find softness in a world where logic tries to run the show
a jolt of remembrance
and the salty surprise in the shape of the nape
the tender web between fingers
the shared breath of a yielding sigh
Danger entrances my bloodbeat
no, this is not the drugstore saxophone player
but the gift of wild berries found only on the side of this mountain,
conditions rare
But I will not forfeit my native tongue
the one that knows how to bridge me into a celtic past
I know little about – oh the roots, the rising of spirit
the simple spiral celebration
peaceful and riotous
Week 2 prompt
ReplyDeleteWhat the universe promises
Run, faster,
don’t wait for body to catch up
jump into blackswinglifeline
no reasons jump like fish to save me
sickness spreads down girl legs
you again, shining, blurry…not dressed for company
vindictive little bitch in tight attitude, teeth crumbling as her drama fades
never asked you for forever, meet anger, meat fury
twenty times a day
no deep breath spared
wiggle-spurned and rough-pruned, expect me to fly?
huh, that noise old
that day long
that end - beige hell comes quick
Another offering
ReplyDeleteUntitled (you can read this line 1,4,7 2,5,8 3,6,9 too)
I punish you
for migrating me so far away from my soul
years I've climbed
now, when you look up from ego's metropolis
see me atop a mountain as high as yours
so far away
still, we see each other's lips move
the silent non-words of prayer
a molten coal