Quintilis

Last night was just about talking,
about seeing face to eye,
self-conscious revealing the
good angles, the elegant angles
of the I-spy an animated soul;
forgetting it's a dreaming thing.
The fluorescent lamp that overhangs
and turns green in polaroids,
developing sticky and wet and black
drying up to an unctuous transparency.
like mnemonic membranes, the fluid
upon the tow of two and two together
again makes a whole other
another, doesn't it? Finally
tucking into it's own mimetic,
meta sensational fictions,
annunciation was the beginning and
this one was once the fifth month.
between fingertips, testing the taste of textures.
the shadows of planes flying above the ground,
and I know the time, the afternoon fills
one packed car, gills shoved into filtering
old poisons, and patience. other options
optional, I untie my laces when
I can hear the crickets, sitting open and
invented on the back stoop,
on towels left damp in the air,
the thick wild and soft invertebrate thrum,
legs and wings, dark murmurings.
the noises of the night. I breathe more
deeply. Only the lights remain— just
down the road, the next exit is somewhere;
arching metal along highways,
Alice's talking flower cousins
mute and only spilling pools of
illumination, to thread the westerly
map of your compass needle,
not gossip, till it all starts,
looking like I remember it should,
when I am clear and you're here,
I just know it will all make sense
even if I'm not modest.

Reviews

[DavidRyan]

I like the reference to the Roman calender in the title. I'm obsessed with anything Roman. This whole piece exudes talent of being able to paint a picture clearly and take the reader almost into another dimension where everything is stripped down to its barest state. I loved reading this and actually went through it two times. The "Looking face to eye" is so brilliant. I'm a sucker for people saying old things in a new way and you have obviously mastered that craft. Well written dear. Not a thing wrong with it. I can't believe I'm the first to comment on it.