Monday, January 30, 2012

fourteenth (nervous)

what is this? always so familiar but so impossibly, invigoratingly unique.
worried. thirteen days. fifteen? who's counting, anyway? maybe he is. or him. I hope not. oh I hope not.
unless... well I can't. shouldn't.
there there. smile yourself to sleep. curl and uncurl, flatten and breathe. the dreams taste... what do they taste like? berries, smashed. lips.
of course you had nothing to do with it.
unless... I can't say that, can I?

curl. flatten. bend, breathe. speak with a little expression in your voice.
precious. questioning. holding, whole.
one day. any day.
unless...

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