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Open Poetry #13

if you were here

aurora rain
Member

since 2000-11-15

Posts 90

0 posted 2001-04-24 09:47 PM

i wanted to go.
wanted to say “if you were here”
and if you were i’d keep the moment still
rushing back to page forty-five where you
kept your bookmark, and where i kept my heart—

but there’s a girl underwater, and she looks like me
star-laced, fabulous, and proud, dancing while
she skims the sea, toes tipped forward in a fury-high grace—

or perhaps a dim repose, curling her feet at your absence
in spaces where she can cover her heart with its small black shield,
the hours heavy with water, a faucet full of shame.

and when she hits the back door it bursts
the faces come undone and the smiles come unlaced,
the circles that we go in resume their centrifugal motion—

and you know, i’d try to stop mechanics if i weren’t so far away
and i wanted to say what i’d do if you were here
if you could stay, wrapped in the palette of my memory.
and not only that, but a little more—
if i could feel the electricity of your kiss
at any time i wished, i’d never go,
not past the pages between your heart
and mine.

Tessa
Member

since 2001-04-21

Posts 67
Ohio

1 posted 2001-04-24 09:54 PM

A beautiful flow to your thoughts......rich with emotion.

aurora rain
Member

since 2000-11-15

Posts 90

2 posted 2001-04-25 10:27 PM

bloody.....er, something, i don't get much response, now do i?

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