musings & mumblings

I have something to tell you

 

Steps forward

Timid mouse sniffing for danger

Dread molasses, pooling and churning and weighing down

Seeks your eye in your sprawl across the sofa

Leathered, weathered, aged sofa

Creaking below your mass as

Your head turns inevitable as the sun’s rise and sees

Hands vibrating hummingbird wings that touch and separate

Mouth a poppy that opens and shuts with celestial bodies’ dance

Just need to get it out-

 

Concern flits across furrowed brow, inevitable as the sun’s set

Bees swarm and climb from stomach up neck and down arms

Hive weighs down the tongue

Mouth’s blossom withers and dries

Teeth jam shut, stuck in memories of too-sweet caramel

Hummingbird hands motion all is fine

Please don’t get up

 

Eyes flee from your face, seek grounding in stone countertop

Unbidden returns the smell of

Mint, memory a monster

Rising from ocean depths

 

Eyes scramble to the ceiling, seek escape in peeling paint

Blinking lashes, flashing light of a dying battery

Barely holding back the storm of tears

Brewing in ocean depths

 

Moment frozen, locked in ice

Drawn out like:

Poison from a wound

Ribbon from a magician’s sleeve

Landscape of painted stillness

Please don’t-

 

Lips trembling earth that opens to let fire inside breathe

Tongue shovels coal between clenched teeth

Embers fall and burn on the carpet, they’re not for you

Rug disintegrates in the firestorm

But you sit unburning

How do you stay so calm?

 

Lapping waves erode passion

Leaving naked nerve endings

Whispers stagger from burnt lips

Carried by the wind

Murmurs climb into your ears

Confessions burrow to your heart

So so tired

 

Screws loosen

Patchwork of patches cannot hold

Dam shatters, splintering slivers across the room

Reluctant tears leak down heated cheeks

“I don’t love you anymore”

 

Inevitable as the sun’s set