Mar 8
WEARING EACH OTHER'S FINGERPRINTS
midnight
tips the candle
slowly slowly
until the pain is bearable
our fingers scream
wax stealing our fingerprints
we laugh in the dark
peel off each other's fingerprints
they lie there
alien animals
cooling on a saucer
sleep finds us
wearing each other's fingerprints
( you me
I you )
years later
not even Death
can steal you from me
**
Me and my big sister Junie entertaining ourselves before the advent of telly back in '63. We made replicas of all ten prints and swapped...she wearing me...I wearing her....become someone else even with this one little gesture. And indeed she would walk into my mind as easy as a lift the latch and walk right in. I too was free to walk into her thoughts and visit how she saw the world. Wrote this for Women's Day because this gentle 18 year old woman meant the world to me. Still does....always will.
midnight
tips the candle
slowly slowly
until the pain is bearable
our fingers scream
wax stealing our fingerprints
we laugh in the dark
peel off each other's fingerprints
they lie there
alien animals
cooling on a saucer
sleep finds us
wearing each other's fingerprints
( you me
I you )
years later
not even Death
can steal you from me
**
Me and my big sister Junie entertaining ourselves before the advent of telly back in '63. We made replicas of all ten prints and swapped...she wearing me...I wearing her....become someone else even with this one little gesture. And indeed she would walk into my mind as easy as a lift the latch and walk right in. I too was free to walk into her thoughts and visit how she saw the world. Wrote this for Women's Day because this gentle 18 year old woman meant the world to me. Still does....always will.
