tempest aroused weather throws a crink in the atmospheric pressure, sun lazy long weekend planned rejuvenation, disrupted, all day rain and wind gusts that whitecap/kneecap the river-fed bay forcing a couch-curling up, a doozey dozy, cozy writable assessment, a tempting answered with positivity
close your eyes and all that can be felt is memorized by your forefinger cells, a stroking upward gesture, your stroking. your finger. the children you have brought into this difficult place
and a woman’s face as she rests uneasy and needs calming
but the memory of your own cheek as a living fired thing being stroked is a gone, because it was not frequent enough, is longer than long past than what matters now
my pointer finger remembers though
pointer finger points at my chest stoking, pushing,