In Rememberance
Location
August 18th
Wrapped up your last pair of good sneakers
In the crease of my elbows
Went walking in your arms
The hangnail of your left thumb
Gracing my forearm to mark territory
My name is Anything But Goodbye
Yours lips sing me like a swallowed song bird
I walk a mile across your mouth
So that your tongue will grant me passage
In your absence
Gather the folds of my skin,
& Mark the creases you last touched with permanent marker
So I won’t forget
Your eyes, cool shower heads that forgive the dirt under my nails
Don’t mind I’ve been digging in the garden burying the corpse of your smile
Been told for my kiss Lazarus would
Arise//A rose
Bush bloomed between your teeth once our mouths parted
I pray it never wilts
The red sea of your open chest, crashed over my head
I part your arms and settle amidst the ocean floor
Listen to your breath
The rise and crest of timber
You howl at crescent moons embedded in the tips of our fingers
We touch like eclipse
We refrain to reflect
Refract like light, scared to stand erect
You are miles away,
But I still know your palms
The Peace that your Turmoil wears like a mask
How your limbs shiver under the weight of its fac/e/ade
You held me like I was the last chance for stillness
Moses I am not
Your tongue rang bells against the base of my neck
I prayed for your peace, to drop its mask
I prayed for your ship to drop its mast
Prayed there was no such thing as sinking
I opened my arms and walked into you
Your waters quieted.