The heaters started rattling
ever since you left here to go west
trading coastlines
I forgot to ask that you send me a postcard,
so I will send you one.
I will send you the sky tonight over Massachusetts;
deep blue with clouds covering patches of stars-
I have lost the moon in their billowing.
I have stopped making my bed in the mornings.
There is no point.
I will crawl into bed at night,
everything feeling the same as it did yesterday,
like no time has passed,
and pull the sheets up to my lips.
I wonder what stars you can see from your window
when you have turned out the lights
and sit in the silence.
(No, You will never become
Statistically speaking,
you are more likely to die in a car crash
than an plane crash
and you are also less likely
to die from a broken heart
than you are from a car crash,
or cancer ,
or a shark attack,
or old age.
These facts are always presented as surprising
but true.
But sometimes the statistics are wrong.
Sometimes,
when you find your body hurtling through the windshield,
seat belt hanging uselessly next to the driver's seat,
it is not the impact that kills you.
It is not the shards of glass that cut at your skin-
shinning thinly like surprised fireworks-
it is his sweater,
faded and frayed at the edges.
It is his breakf
di•chot•o•my /dīˈkädəmē/
a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities
I. Prescriptions
Start here.
Catch me dizzy.
Vomiting in the bathroom,
wiping the little mouth clean into a smile.
I am fine.
Emptying the stomach of all the prescriptions that floated
like foreign spies
in the sea of stomach acid.
I should thank these martyrs for their service
but I cannot keep them down,
cannot keep them buried.
What a grave to give them!
It hardly seems honorable.
But here I go again,
pulling their small oval bodies
up the pink throat with a rusty shovel,
scra
Saturday Confessions by MidnightMelodie, literature
Literature
Saturday Confessions
Winter comes;
constant as a promise,
and leaves salt stains on the entryway floor.
I am learning to think in cycles,
but three years feels like a bit too long
to wait for rain.
Saturday.
He is all thunder and lightening
but my lips are dry as pavement.
He is brooding wind
and longs to carry me away with his heart
but I am heavy as a stone.
Love me he says,
with eyes green like the sky before a tornado.
But who can love a storm
without joining the wreckage?
Slowly he unwraps his scars;
a silent plea for me to bandage them.
I dare not show him my hands;
they are still in the stage of bleeding-
Three years.
He would not want to see
three and a half years in Lyme Connecticut by MidnightMelodie, literature
Literature
three and a half years in Lyme Connecticut
Today I am trapped in Connecticut.
It is a small state,
the third smallest in the country
and the fifth state to ratify the Constitution.
It borders Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island
and covers a mere 5,543 sq miles,
but I am trapped in Connecticut today.
Its slim frame has grown fat like a sleeping jailer;
there is no hope of stretching-
freedom filling the space between each vertebrae-
to reach the border; it is still many months off.
I sit by the window on the second floor;
my legs heavy as tree trunks,
rooted deep,
and decay rattling in my spine.
Connecticut is 379 years old,
and I am just a blip on its timeline.
Connect
My head is a minefield.
You are deconstructing language out loud.
What are words?
My neck is a nest for hornets.
You are picking apart syllables.
You are asking me what we should have for lunch.
I am not usually this angry, I resolve to tell you.
But I realize that all the thorns and briers and swords are pointed inward,
and I am glad to have spared you.
Three years is the time it took to receive a diagnosis.
You ask me what it is like.
(Some days it is like hundreds of tiny knives housed in the crevices of my skull. Other days they are dancing across my face, lingering along my jaw...; blurry eyes and dizzy head- I cannot eat because i
postcards from Romania by MidnightMelodie, literature
Literature
postcards from Romania
She sends me a postcard from Romania-
a place I know nothing about.
The world is so big,
and I
so small
that I can't possibly know everything.
I read it while falling asleep
and dream of his hands.
The delicate lines,
the freckle between his thumb and index finger.
I dream of his hands because it is safer than dreaming of his smile,
or his eyes,
or his lips-
then I risk getting attached.
I will dream of his arms-
no that is too dangerous.
Just his shoulders then.
But perhaps even that is a bit too risky.
I will dream of the air that brushes his cheek
and hope that she loves him
with every cell in her body.
He calls me to come over.
It's a dark night in mid January.
He says come in
and hangs my coat in the closet.
I wasn't planning on staying but you can't
argue with a coat hung in a closet.
He walks in the other room
to pour a cup of tea
and I am afraid of being torn apart
by this heart.
He comes back in
in silence,
with face like the dark side of a mountain,
before the sun has risen to warm it.
We are just two frail ghosts.
He speaks with a voice half broken
and says, you are too beautiful to be this lonely.
I don't tell him I've been hollow for years.
He is knee deep in salt water
and trying not to get knocked over by the waves.
I am ankle deep in cool sand;
eyes closed, listening to the crashing water.
Breathe in. Breathe out.
He is knee deep in ocean water.
I don't look at him.
I try my hardest not to think of him,
which means or course,
he is the only thing on my mind.
I have this dream where the sea becomes glass
and we walk all the way out to the horizon;
all the way to the end of the world.
I think I feel him by my side
but I can't turn my head to look.
So maybe after all,
he never left the shore.
And when you reach the end of the earth,
everything is that perfect horizon blu
Do not hesitate to forget
how your lips buzzed
swollen,
singing,
with late night kisses-
You cannot have him.
Don't bother remembering how hands
were no longer hands but
road maps,
ancient secrets,
gold-
He is not yours to keep.
Do not bother sitting listless,
mind screaming,
circling,
dreaming-
He was never yours to begin with.
The heaters started rattling
ever since you left here to go west
trading coastlines
I forgot to ask that you send me a postcard,
so I will send you one.
I will send you the sky tonight over Massachusetts;
deep blue with clouds covering patches of stars-
I have lost the moon in their billowing.
I have stopped making my bed in the mornings.
There is no point.
I will crawl into bed at night,
everything feeling the same as it did yesterday,
like no time has passed,
and pull the sheets up to my lips.
I wonder what stars you can see from your window
when you have turned out the lights
and sit in the silence.
(No, You will never become
Statistically speaking,
you are more likely to die in a car crash
than an plane crash
and you are also less likely
to die from a broken heart
than you are from a car crash,
or cancer ,
or a shark attack,
or old age.
These facts are always presented as surprising
but true.
But sometimes the statistics are wrong.
Sometimes,
when you find your body hurtling through the windshield,
seat belt hanging uselessly next to the driver's seat,
it is not the impact that kills you.
It is not the shards of glass that cut at your skin-
shinning thinly like surprised fireworks-
it is his sweater,
faded and frayed at the edges.
It is his breakf
di•chot•o•my /dīˈkädəmē/
a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities
I. Prescriptions
Start here.
Catch me dizzy.
Vomiting in the bathroom,
wiping the little mouth clean into a smile.
I am fine.
Emptying the stomach of all the prescriptions that floated
like foreign spies
in the sea of stomach acid.
I should thank these martyrs for their service
but I cannot keep them down,
cannot keep them buried.
What a grave to give them!
It hardly seems honorable.
But here I go again,
pulling their small oval bodies
up the pink throat with a rusty shovel,
scra
Saturday Confessions by MidnightMelodie, literature
Literature
Saturday Confessions
Winter comes;
constant as a promise,
and leaves salt stains on the entryway floor.
I am learning to think in cycles,
but three years feels like a bit too long
to wait for rain.
Saturday.
He is all thunder and lightening
but my lips are dry as pavement.
He is brooding wind
and longs to carry me away with his heart
but I am heavy as a stone.
Love me he says,
with eyes green like the sky before a tornado.
But who can love a storm
without joining the wreckage?
Slowly he unwraps his scars;
a silent plea for me to bandage them.
I dare not show him my hands;
they are still in the stage of bleeding-
Three years.
He would not want to see
three and a half years in Lyme Connecticut by MidnightMelodie, literature
Literature
three and a half years in Lyme Connecticut
Today I am trapped in Connecticut.
It is a small state,
the third smallest in the country
and the fifth state to ratify the Constitution.
It borders Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island
and covers a mere 5,543 sq miles,
but I am trapped in Connecticut today.
Its slim frame has grown fat like a sleeping jailer;
there is no hope of stretching-
freedom filling the space between each vertebrae-
to reach the border; it is still many months off.
I sit by the window on the second floor;
my legs heavy as tree trunks,
rooted deep,
and decay rattling in my spine.
Connecticut is 379 years old,
and I am just a blip on its timeline.
Connect
My head is a minefield.
You are deconstructing language out loud.
What are words?
My neck is a nest for hornets.
You are picking apart syllables.
You are asking me what we should have for lunch.
I am not usually this angry, I resolve to tell you.
But I realize that all the thorns and briers and swords are pointed inward,
and I am glad to have spared you.
Three years is the time it took to receive a diagnosis.
You ask me what it is like.
(Some days it is like hundreds of tiny knives housed in the crevices of my skull. Other days they are dancing across my face, lingering along my jaw...; blurry eyes and dizzy head- I cannot eat because i
postcards from Romania by MidnightMelodie, literature
Literature
postcards from Romania
She sends me a postcard from Romania-
a place I know nothing about.
The world is so big,
and I
so small
that I can't possibly know everything.
I read it while falling asleep
and dream of his hands.
The delicate lines,
the freckle between his thumb and index finger.
I dream of his hands because it is safer than dreaming of his smile,
or his eyes,
or his lips-
then I risk getting attached.
I will dream of his arms-
no that is too dangerous.
Just his shoulders then.
But perhaps even that is a bit too risky.
I will dream of the air that brushes his cheek
and hope that she loves him
with every cell in her body.
He calls me to come over.
It's a dark night in mid January.
He says come in
and hangs my coat in the closet.
I wasn't planning on staying but you can't
argue with a coat hung in a closet.
He walks in the other room
to pour a cup of tea
and I am afraid of being torn apart
by this heart.
He comes back in
in silence,
with face like the dark side of a mountain,
before the sun has risen to warm it.
We are just two frail ghosts.
He speaks with a voice half broken
and says, you are too beautiful to be this lonely.
I don't tell him I've been hollow for years.
He is knee deep in salt water
and trying not to get knocked over by the waves.
I am ankle deep in cool sand;
eyes closed, listening to the crashing water.
Breathe in. Breathe out.
He is knee deep in ocean water.
I don't look at him.
I try my hardest not to think of him,
which means or course,
he is the only thing on my mind.
I have this dream where the sea becomes glass
and we walk all the way out to the horizon;
all the way to the end of the world.
I think I feel him by my side
but I can't turn my head to look.
So maybe after all,
he never left the shore.
And when you reach the end of the earth,
everything is that perfect horizon blu
Do not hesitate to forget
how your lips buzzed
swollen,
singing,
with late night kisses-
You cannot have him.
Don't bother remembering how hands
were no longer hands but
road maps,
ancient secrets,
gold-
He is not yours to keep.
Do not bother sitting listless,
mind screaming,
circling,
dreaming-
He was never yours to begin with.
"...
Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is
to watch the year repeat its days.
It is as if I could dip my hand down
into time and scoop up
blue and green lozenges of April heat
a year ago in another country.
I can feel that other day running underneath this one
like an old videotape—here we go fast around the last corner
up the hill to his house, shadows
of limes and roses blowing in the car window
and music spraying from the radio and him
singing and touching my left hand to his lips.
Law lived in a high blue room from which he could see the sea.
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