Apr 06, 2021 09:59
The white pillar candles are $8 at Target.
I buy them and forget to light them,
make a note to buy little decorative plates to put them on so the wax doesn’t drip onto the dresser bought at IKEA when the moon was still young,
the one we had to disassemble when it was almost
finished because J did it backwards and the drawers wouldn’t roll in.
Instead I grab the last paper bowls remaining from the move two years ago,
the move that disentangled us
left us frayed at our edges, cold and alone,
in need of candlelight.
Two candles in each bowl, not fitting,
one candle a weird angle that I don’t light because the wax will definitely still drip down.
Have you ever tried to scrub off semi-hard wax off of anything?
It’s a pain in the ass.