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A poem i wrote a year or so ago. Enjoy~
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Moths
Before our first, we kept them
pressing for hours in our hands
like pearls, but much too afraid
they’d de-shell and slip away.
But the pressure warmed us
until the thoughts were moths
until they flickered like moths
and fingertips might burn them.
We popped like breathing again
as we freed it, watched our eyes
in clocklight and curtain spaces.
Play-by-play lit in standby red –
enough light to carve silhouettes
we could observe in fingerprint
and paint silver with lip shine.
It is enough to weave our limbs
and find tongues: map-less acts
rehearsed for months in advance.
Remembering we’d once been afraid
to fill our hands with each other –
if we looked we’d see those moths
dancing in the light from the hallway.
© me
Moths
Before our first, we kept them
pressing for hours in our hands
like pearls, but much too afraid
they’d de-shell and slip away.
But the pressure warmed us
until the thoughts were moths
until they flickered like moths
and fingertips might burn them.
We popped like breathing again
as we freed it, watched our eyes
in clocklight and curtain spaces.
Play-by-play lit in standby red –
enough light to carve silhouettes
we could observe in fingerprint
and paint silver with lip shine.
It is enough to weave our limbs
and find tongues: map-less acts
rehearsed for months in advance.
Remembering we’d once been afraid
to fill our hands with each other –
if we looked we’d see those moths
dancing in the light from the hallway.
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