In the Thick
In the thick
of our holy quarrel,
she leans in
to whisper
the most important thing,
but is silent,
and I want to leave her
alone
across the table
on her device,
but I knock over our old vase
spilling the violets,
and she looks at me
as if before they fell,
she’d already
seen them
fallen.
~
Kiss It All Away
I crumble under the weight of your wings
as you leap from the balcony and find that you’re only human
and the two of us fall.
There are gods burning in the fire place
painfully smiling through bruised lips
I’ve got runs in my hose from their fingernails; they need us, too.
What a disappointment it was to discover
that you still have one foot stuck in the real world
and it’s the foot that counts.
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