i bear the star on each thigh
of my mother's eye, splintered
as the glass of their wedding frame :
flesh is softly undone easy as a knife
through butter : unravel and maim
our years (the love that was lost)
THE WOMAN DESTROYED
i was stung softly — sweetly — singed
by your loving hand that toyed
with me and the naïvety of my navel
nailed skyward. your hands
crucified my arms which had only
ever held you close. the dose is low
of a pink pillule pressed prettily
to the tongue morning and afternoon
to slow the pangs ; smother the sea
of each lung.
i pray for the flight to sail to sea
and test the knocks of each wall —
(do you see how each thigh parts redily
as the roses that climbed our granite home?)old paraphernalia found me a girl
destroyed and left for dead —
lied to and discarded in our very bed —
the three of them that you were all
over them all over their three heads —
you ruined all my songs
and ruined everything that
really meant anything
to me
with each butchering touch of the hand
it does not matter at all
to the carcass of the one that you love(d).(03/04/2018)
YOU ARE READING
Have you seen the Lost Boys?
Poesíaharking back to an earlier poem of mine: poor wendy -- all the heroines get left behind. but she was a darling after all. yes, i very much have tears in my eyes. and it shall be hard to see, and sometimes i won't want to, but i will go on looking an...