-
i found a can of fish hooks
while looking for a pair
of gloves to—day
_a decomposing hand
crawls its way back
to its owner;_
in the course of parsing
her effects after she was
folded and filed away
_finger over finger by thumb
over lithography of safety,
prying open the subtle warmth
of personal bed space,_
like a pen seeking fluid
to fuel an exhausted
ink well,
the tip of one of
them pricked my finger,
_finger over finger by thumb
over a papier-mâché torso –
casting long shadows, even
in total darkness,_
my blood then violated
an heirloom—
a notepad of dreams she
had on her nightstand
the morning she died,
_between the folds of blankets
towards vulnerable skin—
icy digits commence
with repossession,_
detailing on
her last entry what
i had just written here—
_frantically groping into thick
blackness for the pull chain
of a light switch—_
something to do about a
can full of fish hooks
she happened upon
in a nightmare...
_It was just a Glove
it was a glove
it's a glove
a glove
~_
s jones
2021
.
Jan 24, 2021
Jan 24, 2021 at 8:26 AM UTC
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i found a can of fish hooks
while looking for a pair
of gloves to—day
_a decomposing hand
crawls its way back
to its owner;_
in the course of parsing
her effects after she was
folded and filed away
_finger over finger by thumb
over lithography of safety,
prying open the subtle warmth
of personal bed space,_
like a pen seeking fluid
to fuel an exhausted
ink well,
the tip of one of
them pricked my finger,
_finger over finger by thumb
over a papier-mâché torso –
casting long shadows, even
in total darkness,_
my blood then violated
an heirloom—
a notepad of dreams she
had on her nightstand
the morning she died,
_between the folds of blankets
towards vulnerable skin—
icy digits commence
with repossession,_
detailing on
her last entry what
i had just written here—
_frantically groping into thick
blackness for the pull chain
of a light switch—_
something to do about a
can full of fish hooks
she happened upon
in a nightmare...
_It was just a Glove
it was a glove
it's a glove
a glove
~_
s jones
2021
.
24 Jan 2021
