2 posts tagged “poetry”

from my journal on 2/30/09

hello and I’ve sat here for a million years

looking out these same windows.

all the faces that pass by, they are like

the window pane-

smooth and untouchable at a distance.

i travel from my mind and rest myself

on the tops of people’s heads.

i see from their view

but can’t understand what they see,

nor the endless choices they make.

i am like the walls of a building,

the structure that houses life

but can have none of it without

the company of others.

they file in and file out- touch my lining

and I shiver to hear the warm

beneath their  finger skins.

this is not a house of rejection;

i see your pain and it is forgiven.

all the heavy thoughts you carry,

bury them here with me now,

and walk back into the world unburdened,

knowing they were never yours to bear.

a million years have gone by

 and there are lines on my belly

 and around the face of my listening.

i wave out from this foundation,

extending all sensors

to pick up a pulse-

someone who’s waiting for a rescue.

dead ends discourage and infuriate.

i understand.

but I press my hand into your longings

and form keys from my silver skin

to open the doors you had long abandoned.

i am a pulse, i am a signal and i am

searching for you.

i know you beyond the encoding of your name.

i feel you glimmer on heaven’s wind

and this is where I find you-

twisted down into the shape of man, yes

and sacred woman-

but I see the idea that you were born to be.

your face is the map i unlock as i

look into the well of your heart

and hear what it is you’ve been

afraid of saying.

Bitchy kitty scratches at leg.

Head beats against homework and unsaved daylight.

Spiraling solar plexus seeks release in to-o-oning, refuge in caffeine.

Warm sandwich counteracts cold hand of November.

Empty night spills into dim lit rooms and multi-tongued conversations.

Teapot tumbles but keeps its stuffing.

Electronica conjures smooth edges for jagged brain.

Man holds up slices to white mirror.