Catch an Ox by the tail
Pass the parcel
Make it scream
Pin it to the wall
Seems everything he did– gave me the finger:
Ordering the bloodiest meat on the menu
Blowing smoke in my face
Taking me to a wine bar when I am not drinking
Asking me questions when I cannot speak
Getting hammered and falling asleep Infront of TV,
hand down [...]
navigating
our seemingly separate ways
one towards Southern Cross and one towards the Northern lights
we both magnetically move
in the same direction
propelled
forwards
Two wings of the same bird
We travel as one
Today
The sun rose
And the motorway is already caffeinated with traffic
but you are not here
My body still functions well
It longs for you in waves - prickles hot at night
There are thousands of reasons to celebrate the miraculous synchronized unfolding of tiny things
But
you are not here
I hit the vein of revelation multiple times in a day now
and [...]
Eyes closed - heart open
your parted lips urge me
to be silent
the soft groaning taste
of honey spoken poems is more-ish
insatiable in my salted mouth
They demand their aching melodies be sung
Inside the gravity
of our departure gate waiting
within the last possible leaving embrace -
I felt us finally arrive together
then fly away
(gracious)
in separate directions
(fleshless – weightless)
denied each other
for seemless [...]
This love began as a star-gazed wish on a soft white sand beach in the middle of the pacific
It slowly cracked itself open from a tiny turtle hatchling buried egg.
It swam vast migratory distances
across the strongest ocean currents and through the most insecure of seas
over months and un-numbered days.
This love sat.
confused, lightstarved, anxious
in the hold [...]