You told me I could fall asleep Laying on your chest, The rise And fall Of your breathing Urging me to rest.
The unearthly zephyr sang stridulant verses Transuding through the window The hibernal ghost couldn’t touch you or I, Underneath our lullaby. Thwack. Awake. You wrapped your fingers around my neck The skin red and raw You screeched to me, questioned who I was The only word that escaped was ‘more’
The concavity of where you laid Was warm under my heavy skull My thoughts drifted To the beat of your feet Silently Inevitably Creeping Away.
The light bled through the pullulating slit Where you disdained me a final time You left without knowing you’d left a thing Call it forgetting. Theft. Crime.
Where was this cryptic noise conceived? I wondered that a while It was your flesh Your bones and blood Your heart and soul Your child.