Thursday, February 13, 2020

Dissipate

I dedicate this to you,
            but first, 
                        fire
            -scorch the earth collected 
            blow out the flame, 
                  watch,     inhale,   let go

the whispers reach heavenward,       
the scent broadens through the space,
-and with it,
the taste of
            the first painful bite
            an outline traced
            as plumes of smoke
            recreate your face
a memory, 
            twirls, salutes
                    twists into nothingness
                                                let go

snakes across my collar bone, 
            knotting into my chest, 
branching across the bridge of my nose
to aggravate my eyelashes
                                                let go

cascades, 
            diving, colliding this;
                        sorrow swirls,
            taut and flaring,
                        a maelstrom uprooting
                                                let go

                        watch them narrow, eddy
            watch them divide,
forked fingers,            fearful
            bent knuckles, twisting,
                        tapping the vaporous
            scratching 
                        until dissolution 
                  watch,     inhale,   let go.

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