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The uneven colour of love;
a waxed tribute to the thrown-flame,
the blood hot coming growing cool.
Remembering:
something ripped something broken
slowly and silently and tearfully
as morning frost against the migratory
punch of a fossil sun...
( and you might say the sun stands still,
that all else turns away – and I might say
the truth is some other thing)
Close your eyes:
feel the chafing of thought -
the fibre of nebulous thighs -
those thoughts typing terse
tepid tongues inside you –
DNA desire exposed -
a press-stud, melting
There was gold:
there was the fervour in your smile -
the long legged warmth wrapped
all-round, completely.
The long summer between hands
in coitus through feral fields
hastening our pace towards
moonlight.
( and you will recall that I often
said nothing out loud (but)
always a kaleidoscope rattled
inside – my heart fit to flood
with love)
Remembering...
Black trees scratching the air
naked and knotted; time tattered
under feet too heavy to lift
into the crisp clear moments
where winter breathes and swallows
dart dispersed and unseen rivers.
METHOD:
Take a flat brown paper sheet –
Fold it
end to end
Fold it
Fold it
Into an arrow -
Bow it
through time
And it will fall somewhere -
Flat.
Remembering:
(you said memories were dreams good and
bad -they were not real ,and I said that real
is all we can feel in memory or right now –
you just laughed)
A lit coffee lounge: fluorescents flickered
out of pace with skin and exposed
animated cracks, fissures fault. Desire
percolated desire. Three tables away
your aide scribbled caffeine fuelled
notes as you slowly sipped
and shot fire into my widening eyes.
The bed lay open – a fresh white sheet
cooling in the mid-morning air
striding through the half open window
shouting to the sun and begging
it to stay.
Your mouth bird song:
a chorus of different tunes
here and here -
a chorus
Your hands unseen
secret form –masked movement
here and here -
an arras
Traffic lights coughed colours
a cacophony of sound, MRI spikes
of a world going somewhere
going nowhere again and again.
And the lights will cough.
And the horns will hoot.
And the sirens swirl their sound.
(Remember I said “I love you” in
a moment so dense with life the
words just hit the ground blew
round and round
and scattered separately
beneath leaf mold, isolated.)
Close your eyes:
feel the chafing of thought
my mouth against your shoulder
warm and soft
firm and full upon you.
Sun, here and here
In these sheets
In your hair
On my back
White hot blindfold
On your eyes.
An endless endless throb
Worn here – ripped here
Because I love you.
Debbie Walsh