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Dec 2010 · 853
Moth Catcher
Vanessa Rivera Dec 2010
there's a pulse between my palms
a desperate pounding
disorientation and distress
I walk away from the light
peek inside tightly closed fingers
brown and dusty wings
such a tiny body
my hands part
it has no hesitation
I follow it's erratic path
back to the security of the light
it beats its wings against it
I cup my hands and close them
around it once again
so easily I could crush that twittering form
just push my palms together
and it would turn to dust
but I am no menace
I open my hands again
Vanessa Rivera Dec 2010
if the sky's full of birds,
what do you care?
Our feet are on the ground
and our hands are in the air.
you're the collector of weeds
and fallen trees,
everything unwanted,
living in houses filled with bees.
the woods will never tell us
where we will go next.
we screamed Our names into the sky
it's just how we do it best.
I did not love you
for your skin nor your bones
nor the places you turned
from houses into homes.
it might have been how
you danced with twigs in your hair.
that night I was so warm
and my skin it felt so bare.
painting skyscrapers on Our bellies
I ate the stars, you ate the sun.
the monsters have come looking
but now, I know which way to run
Vanessa Rivera Dec 2010
I am afraid
the times will change
the world will spin
we'll walk away
you'll grow old.

our house burned down one night
but we saved our books and selves
the embers
left holes in our shirts
and scars on our arms
so we ran to the lake

and screamed.

we basked in the water
till our clothes became anchors
and dawn crawled over the mountains
we stood on the banks
and stared at the ashes
wondering
what would become of us,
this place

I am afraid
I am afraid we will forget this

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