He asked me
Have you ever held words the way you held your tongue?
Between your teeth and above your throat
Wading through infectious, salted skin
That built pillars around your mouth
He told me once
"I carved your name and swallowed its sound"
While he savored each letter in its cursive emblem
Tasting each flaw on poisonous ridges
And desiring to weave it into a poem
He died late that day
From the angles stuck in his voice
It stole his breath
Placing his lyrics on my cheeks
Hearing them sing whenever it rained
Etiolating the surface
And down they trailed through the rest of my body
My forgotten name stuck in his throat
~ Kes
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Forgotten Words
PoesiaThis is a collection of my poems. It is filled with my emotions and profound thoughts of what I experience in the world around me. These are my nonsense verses.
