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anna 1d
The tingle in my stomach
sends warning to
my mind and
fire to my heart.
A persistent unwanted
alarm - the most
beautiful undulations
across a sleeping
seascape.
The glimmer in your eye is limited.
Fruitless.
My cheeks might ripen;
a red caution.
Butterflies hidden
in rainfall when
the season sees
no sun and they
have not yet fallen.
anna 1d
I don't have the heart
to tell myself
that this is not real.

Brain safe inside it's
skull.
Heart secure behind it's
ribs.
The sleeping parts of myself.
I owe you so much.
anna 1d
Haven't you heard?
Starting tomorrow everything is going to be just fine.
They just announced it
blaring over the speakers
the radio
the telly.
A languid female voice - the jagged automaton - rang out
loud and clear
eliminating chance for error.

Did you hear?
The computer says we
don't have to worry anymore.

Did you hear?
Did you hear? The robot
thinks our worry
is all very silly.
anna 3d
Miracle man,
What can you do for me?
Will you spread your angel wings
and block my view
or can you hold red cupped in
your ape hands and turn
wine into ichor?

Miracle man,
wave me your wand
swift movements only
or wave me goodbye.
Don't tell me you know how
to prepare for
the inevitable unless
you defy definite certainties.

Miracle man,
your complex grace,
teach me dying but
do not let me die.
Show me living amongst
wilting lives.
Or don't.

Miracle man,
place your hand to
my wrist
my chest
my throat
and show me
iron strength in pulses.

Miracle man,
Do not acknowledge
what you cannot
save for me.
Shield my eyes, guardian.
Help me hide from
tomorrow's tomorrow.
anna 3d
Constricting lengths around breaths
Ignorance at half-pint lungs
Jumping away from tadpole death
Water dries warped when your eyes shut
Reflections in the butterfly
Shimmer - distortion.
Mortality owners, please explain your limits
Ten or less bullet points.
anna Apr 9
I still think about
those two ten year olds
in the kitchen
baking scones, in the
flour-clouded haze of that early
spring. Tucking in matching lanyards
for our secret club.

I still think about
sitting in your boyish room
and brushing blue chalk
through wavy blond, while
you showed me your favourite
football cards. You'd exhale as a laugh,
a defiant filly's huff.
Lavender oil rubbed onto our
narrow wrists beneath the
orange bands.

I still think about our
sweet innocence. The laughter
we made to deny our
growing up.

I still think about you
when we pass by each other.
Sometimes I smile. Often
I don't. An indifferent glance.
People don't believe me now
when I say we were ever
close as we were. A phantom
lavender scent lingers
at our confluence.
this isn't extremely good literary wise so I might still change it later on
anna Apr 8
He presented the model ship,
sitting it carefully on a footstool,
and we toured the deck together
towards pen-barrel pipes,
past toothpick benches
and matchstick fences.

Larger than life, yet
held in two warm hands.

I traced the brushstrokes of
the oak-brown gloss across
the hull with gentle fingertips, mirroring
every hour of effort, every hour
of time.
My finger lingered over a
patched imperfection.

I saw every grand story play
out before me, a hundred times
smaller, condensed against time.
Hands mimicked the motions of
an ocean, rocking in time
with his melodic memories
as his voice reeled tales
of the youth that
still glimmered
in his dusted eyes

Surrounded in the comfort
of the rippling blue carpet
practiced hands map out the
scenery - a scene I see clearly -
the lighthouse
the navigating star.

On the shrunken hull, behind the
asterix helm, I see a miniscule man
- eyes a pure portion of the
ocean - gazing out at the
watercolour horizon, eyes on
the indication of any
destination lying beyond.
work in progress
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