[poetry] Modern Love: For Thomas

Feb 28, 2007 11:39

For Thomas

Your upturned face reminds me of
sunflowers
Your eyes are thirsty as you watch the sky
burst into flame
I tilt my head back to see
    what you see
    to dream
    what you dream
but vertigo pulls my head in
strange directions
soon I have to stop and look at my feet

(gravel crunching under the soles of these heels I wore for you)

You didn't believe me when I said
I cared
Your mouth quirked at the corners, the
slightest movement
that you never believe
    I notice
    don't believe
    I see
but I do, you tell me I have strange
predilections
you laugh, teeth glinting, eyes escaping from sight (from mind)

You already know, I've told you and
I know
There's a ghost of something in your smile
A pallor because
I think, maybe you're the ghost
    nothing
    more
    than smoke
still, I bat at the embers falling on your hair
a vestige of affection
No need, no harm, you say. They're only fireworks

(later, I cry, and you want to know why
but I can't tell you.
You never believe me)

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