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Your candles glow

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

0 posted 2003-09-03 01:11 PM

I have forgotten the glow of your candles.
The lines of wax shivering and shimmering.
I have forgotten the touch of your smoke
pressing small pictures to my open hands.
I have forgotten your melting in fire.
Submitting to the whims of color and flame.
I have forgotten the sharp smell of matches
coaxing more embers from a warm coal.

I have forgotten the sight of you swallowed,
corroding to a point, a clean white filament.
I have forgotten the words you remember
when you feel the sear, the search of sealing lips.
I have forgotten the shadows we borrowed
in order that we may be here tonight.
I have forgotten the shapes we must follow
in order that we may be here today.

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2003-09-03 01:36 PM

But I will never forget
the firing of your pen...
or how it scorches the paper
with memory.

Tiersdin
Member Elite

since 2000-11-17

Posts 2364
east coast

2 posted 2003-09-03 02:59 PM

I enjoy reading the way you think...

well done!

~Tier

Allysa

Senior Member

since 1999-11-09

Posts 1952
In an upside-down garden

3 posted 2003-09-03 03:12 PM

"I have forgotten the touch of your smoke
pressing small pictures into my open hands".

Wonderful, Mike. Once again, something great to read while I'm supposed to be futhering my excellent education.

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