The End Of It

one, words, swollen, warp, bridged, sexual, sweet, wine, dissected, mistaken, thin, minutes.

one of us should speak but,

having swallowed the other's words

we sit, tongues swollen, glaring.

the weft and warp of us tangled

uncharted, these waters. too wild to be bridged

we'd lost what was sexual,

the sweet has gone right off.

the last of the wine is drunk

and dissected to sour grapes and water

we were clearly mistaken

excuses, apologies and love all worn thin

now just counting the minutes to departure

After All

 

Bonjour, mes amis.

Still here.
Kicked while I was down, (multiple times),
but still here.

i have meandered the full spectrum of grief:
i have been wild and angry,
despondent,
and have begged on my knees.

i have cried out,
stamped my foot,
shaken my fist at the Heavens.
i have rationalized,
withdrawn,
and turned myself inside out.

but i am still here.

Love Song

cacophony, zombie, sidestep, formed, migraine, French, too, nominal, dialect, swallowed, habitual, bonfire

whisper lovingly to me over the cacophony,

the primordial zombie soup of noise and colour.

we can sidestep the elephant

we've formed from our feces

but it still grows like a migraine...

there's only French in my head

mixed too with bits of glitter,

a nominal portion of oil paint and linseed

and i speak a dialect only you know.

we have swallowed each other

it's habitual, the nature of us,

to watch it all go up in the smoke of a bonfire

we started.

Lunar

It took a little out of her, that eclipse. She just wasn't really whole after it was over. Maybe the effort to produce that luminous orange glow would continue to eat away at her year after year, until one day she was just a part of the velvet expanse of the night.

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Added To My Verbal Bag Of Tricks

os·cu·late[os-kyuh-leyt] verb, -lat·ed, -lat·ing.

–verb (used without object)

1.

to come into close contact or union.

2.

Geometry . (of a curve) to touch another curve or anotherpart of the same curve so as to have the same tangent andcurvature at the point of contact.

–verb (used with object)

3.

to bring into close contact or union.

4.

Geometry . (of a curve) to touch (another curve or anotherpart of the same curve) in osculation.

5.

to kiss.

Origin: 
1650–60;  < L ōsculātus  (ptp. of ōsculārī  to kiss), equiv. to ōscul( um ) kiss, lit., little mouth ( see osculum) + -ātus -ate¹

Haikus For Otis

rhythm, fits, storm, breath, sea, touch, fog, rocks, swallowing, night, tide, searches

      UN.

the rhythm we make

in fits and starts, heroic

is my perfect storm

     DEUX.

time my breath with yours.

drown myself in your green sea,

reach out and save me.

    TROIS.

fog rolls slowly in

still we sit, two craggy rocks

swallowing the dark.

    QUATRE.

the Moon, wrapped in night

finds her image in the tide

she searches her face

Letter To An Unknown Gift-Giver

Dear Mr. Samlidis,
       I am writing concerning a very lovely pair of Anthropologie earrings. They were sent to me, as it would appear, by you. However, I have never been to New York; neither have I - based upon your Facebook photo - ever met you. Understandably, I find the motives behind the earrings dubious.
      If it was a mistake that they came to me, (as I presume), please let me know and I will return them forthwith. If, however, these earrings are connected in some way to an attack upon my identity, I must ask you to please desist. I assure you I haven't an identity worth stealing...

                                                   Yours,
                                                   L.Moore