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bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

0 posted 2012-01-23 10:26 AM

Once again, it seems
I am somehow wearing
the wrong dress for this dream,

a frail slip, shoulders,
in such a sheer-pink pitch,
invites murder into the parlor,
as mirrors go dark with regret,
un-corseted, I spill through the seams
of something so fragile,
and mourning

after morning I wake
from that wild darkness
and emerge from inside
your heavy shearling coat,
powder a black slur at the clavicle,
as my throat latches on air,
a broken clasp, pales
among the muddy mirabilis,

we’ve become myth to each other,
this milky conscription of hours
silky occlusions,threaded
crinoline fragments stitched-in
rinds of ricepaper and drumlins,
and it’s nothing like destiny,

here’s a wasp thumb deep
in the heart of a pomegranate,
her flesh its own brimstone and poppied,
though we pull out of the impenetrable
the dirtiest bird wings,
bathe them in rosewater,
then plant them in each other’s bodies,
fly,

and why only on Thursdays,
my eyes night like the sky
on the sixth of November,
and my name becomes nothing
but a revision of origami lilies,

though having never known the dirt by feel,
yet, learn to root in wind.

Dark Stranger
Member Patricius

since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

1 posted 2012-01-23 10:51 AM

BBBel1e...now thst is a lady I would buy shoes for...kewl poem girl.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2012-01-23 11:44 AM

Wonderful, and outpouring of the soul here Baby Girl. Such inner feelings and darkness harboring what the dark will harbor. Loved it.

~*~ I gave up feeling guilty just to survive a long time ago ~*~

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

3 posted 2012-01-23 12:35 PM

daddy~

barefoot will do too

~much love
XOXO

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

4 posted 2012-01-23 12:36 PM

Mr. Pat~

Thanks so much for stopping to read through the murk ! Glad you liked it!

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

5 posted 2012-01-23 10:27 PM

"after morning I wake
from that wild darkness
and emerge from inside
your heavy shearling coat,
powder a black slur at the clavicle,
as my throat latches on air,
a broken clasp, pales
among the muddy mirabilis,"

Superb poetry, BG.
The four o'clock hour
has its draw backs...

Enjoyed the read.

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

6 posted 2012-01-23 10:30 PM

JL~ it does indeed! LOL...thanks for checking this out, man...

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

7 posted 2012-01-23 11:28 PM

I love the dark edge to this. You paint it very well in nearly surreal imagery.

"Un-corseted, I spill through the seams
Of something so fragile"

I relate well to the feeling dirty though you've never actually touched the dirt part. Shame can be a four letter word in the hands of the wrong people... And they usually bear no shame wrongfully thrusting it unto others.

Great write.

Michael

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

8 posted 2012-01-24 06:17 AM

hey Michael~~~

Thank you for the insightful reply...you hooked right into one of the darkest themes that runs thru this one!

xoxo

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

9 posted 2012-01-25 01:21 AM

BG, I just get wrapped up in words and I love Michael's response. So cool - from both of you.

Alison

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

10 posted 2012-01-25 07:07 AM

Hey, thanks so much, Alison!

LeeJ
Member Patricius

since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296

11 posted 2012-01-25 07:28 AM

I have so missed reading you and you just get better and better...
marvelous read!

Lee J.

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

12 posted 2012-01-25 07:30 AM

Thanks so much, LeeJ~*~*~

XOXO

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

13 posted 2013-03-12 10:48 PM

I've been missing your writing belle...so back to the top...James

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