YEARS AND A DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS
All the magic
Sweeping floor with electricity
The hard floor bearing
You a Soft opening
Lay your head here
Now that Christmas is gone
I can love you with wickedness
The scent of green pine
Falling needles quit
Snow hides my broken necklace
Mouth full of secrets
I can give what you expect
The gifts of danger, strangulation
Unwrap my garments with pleasure
I can show you light
After the silent night
Crystal strands of breath
Bow your drunken head
Set the pen
Alongside a candle lit desk
Write of those memories
Ones that brought children
Sheets with roses and tears
A song of abandonment
Long after midnight
Geese fly over my newborn son
Casting no shadows of fears
A daughter delivered on Sunday
Silver clouds and echoes
Misty city hospital lights
Years will follow your middle name
With lips pressed firm against her stomach
A heartbeat of concrete
Olive oil eggs and French toast
A cabin with frosted windows
Behind blue laced curtains
Shovel the stairs between the oaks
Kiss me again while I’m naked
My hands a vice hold your head
Your legs a pail memory
A frame of creation
I brushed a canvas with color
Poinsettia a flower
There is no mystery
In the way I felt you
The way I laid you
Gifts that you gave me
Words spoken like poetry
Hands pulled against our backs
Broken a chance of release
A cadence to climax
Pulsating away from darkness
And I awake a day after
Having nothing
Rds
The second
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