Vision is obscured.
Remove glasses, dried salt flakes splashed across the inside of the lenses, deposited by tear-wet eyelash tips.
Fairytale endings are for princesses... and I am no princess.
Wipe the glass clean, look again.
About Me
- Poetry of Flesh
- Los Angeles, CA, United States
- Love Sonnet XI
Pablo Neruda
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me,
all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.
I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.
I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,
and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.
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ReplyDeleteendings are for storybooks...and none of us live in a storybook.
ReplyDeleteKeep seeing
it's a tough call. we can have royalty if we understand how faulted they are.
ReplyDeleteon the west coast of vancouver island, i hiked to a beach just north of the west coast trail. seeing as it was rainforest, it was very muddy. if i tried not to get muddy at all, i would invariably bail straight into a giant puddle. when i accepted getting muddy, i made smarter decisions about where to step, and avoided an ass-plant. i think we can get the happy, as long as we don't avoid the unhappy.
how about chin up AND eyes open?
ps
ReplyDeleteyou're totally a princess. a terrifying, tiger-riding, ass-kicking, muffin-baking princess.
Fairytale endings *are* for princesses...I'd rather have a fairytale beginning.
ReplyDeleteI hope you're okay, this has me worried. Just remember you are wonderful. If GV8 has been messing you round I may just personally come over to California and tell him what I think of him in person. Although I may appear mild I can be vicious on occasion, he may never recover.
ReplyDeleteI read this earlier, and felt concerned. You deserve to be happy, and to be treated well.
ReplyDeleteI'm with the others.
I wanted to post an alternative post without my phone number since you didnt need to use it and there is no point leaving it out here on the internet. I understand that you have enough people in your life and you dont need another one to stir the pot. While I do feel compassion for you, it seems that just like a cat you have landed on your feet so there is no need for me to worry. Take care, Thanks for the post, Sweet
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