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 Aug 2015 Melinda Éva
Chris
~

Sitting out in the backyard
far from the glow of the city
in one of two lawn chairs
positioned facing east,
I gaze upon the rising moon,
watching in silence as it climbs
above a slowly fading horizon

And I think to myself…
this bright shining orb, is it lonely
sitting there all by itself
in the vast turquoise heavens
perhaps hoping for a beautiful star
to join it on a warm
August evening like this

When I see one appear,
a glistening gemstone,
dazzling in illumined brilliance
just to its right and I wonder
as I look to the empty seat
just to my right, is the moon maybe
*thinking the same thing about me
Good night beautiful
I miss you
it starts like this;

breathing

to the grief of non-belief
against anything appealing

I'll chop down the rest

I loved you best in my bed
& again in your car

that I would love you, coming back
& I will love you very far

I am calling this a lesson
while breaking down my heart

and I am learning every second
what to see, placed in the dark
I forfeit for this;
mobility  
my mind
served up to
its drunkness off you
bodies full on my lack of finding

sound your disregard &
relieve your knife of
what it had done to me as

I gaze at your sleep in the direction of mine & drowned in fog until I lose
until I turn blue with love
it is there I see her heart
I want to swallow your key
I
blame the weight of the hand
& I frame the finger
I blame the math and pattern

under your mattress I left my gist
thumbs and throat

you just keep switching the sheets

I bring the ocean to hold my thighs down
for every time
that every time
I say it
it is me speaking and not the situation
I forfeit for weather reports and hurt feelings
resuscitate by mouthing off
to suffocate this feeling
If I'm not told
I am not whole

I don't need your affirmation darling,
but some attention would be nice

mystery is only good for its journey

& I can't go around picking up nothing
 Aug 2015 Melinda Éva
Chris
~

French toast
kisses drizzle
upon me in
maple syrup
shimmers,
coating my
yearning lips
with the sweet
cinnamon butter
*love of you
Good morning beautiful
 Aug 2015 Melinda Éva
Chris
~

You are the sum of my heart,
*I need add nothing more
 Aug 2015 Melinda Éva
niamh
Salute
 Aug 2015 Melinda Éva
niamh
Where they poured cement
in an attempt to turn the world grey,
the seed finds a crack
from which it bursts forth,
petals unfurling
in glorious revelation,
rushing towards the sun
in exaltation,
breaking borders
and denying monotony,
standing tall,
a velvet fist
raised in victorious salute.
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