there is a certain way in which
your face is pock-marked
by sprinkles of moon-dust
two canyons made by your cheeks
two soft craters just beyond
the edge of your smile
i map the surface of the moon
with my lips, softly without
stirring up dust, because
i am blind and i have to feel
in order to see you
like a sputtering candle
in a blacked-out house
we will be drowned in wax,
opening our mouths so that
our tracheas become clogged
and our bodies are encased
in memories hardened
by time.
It was a summer day. The room was buzzing with noise, and outside the window, a song drifted through the air. It drifted through the summer air, warm and humid, stirred with just the right breeze. Not a knife that slices through, but a feather, a gentle caress of coolness through the not-summer room, gray and drab and crowded.
The song drifted through, blasted by a car on the street outside. And it was a summer song, from some generic indie rock boy band, full of drum beats and guitar riffs. Joy and freedom tumbled from it, instrumental gold and lyrical jewels that bounced onto the pavement, glittering and out of reach from the ope
living girl, do not
build an armory out of
incisors & fractured femurs
do not seek
to fit this throne of bones; do not
shrink into the framework of this citadel
feral girl, feral heart,
we can scoff at those who want to live forever
(immortality is fickle)
but we
are more than
lost baby-teeth
& we
have words to give
yet