Falling Adrift

Falling Adrift

A Poem by Ashley_Pietro

      dead bark looms from frozen water
         our hands reach for the white branches
     as if to breathe new life into them

          little talks with nature

a four letter word surfaces
          casual and inflamed
                his mouth was soft--
subtle and unexpected,
like the way the sun sets
over the fine hairs of my waistline
               perceiving you, perceiving me 
the great indoors

          my echo kept waiting--

could those three syllables
have just been the tiny figments of my imagination,
          regenerating
his sweet saliva
          that was not yet mine to absorb?

spewing from my lips
were the eleven hindered letters
          nevertheless--
as tangible as a fountain of rubies
brushing the violet dusk

          star-crossed darkness

nourishing our seven deadly syllables
we lie awake in this nightmare, and
     you listen to me, listen to you
               shout it over and over and over again

© 2014 Ashley_Pietro


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Added on April 30, 2014
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Ashley_Pietro
Ashley_Pietro

Boston, MA



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