Posts tagged: need
WALL OF NOT-HURT (NO ACHE)
skin sedimentary
soft, alluvial
my fingertips
press tepid and
button-shaped
against the
not-wall
of pending
dark
memories
shored against
the unmeasured
flood of now
of I do
of until death
of skin
I am met by
the invisible
torpor of hands
drowned in time
passing
freight-like
steeped in loss
something
meant to be
remembered
clouds shrouding
the moon
soft, alluvial
who knew this
forest would
materialize into
nothing
of warmth
a soft wall
of hurt I can
no longer feel
this promise
of humanity
the ache
“Wall of Not-Hurt (no ache),” K.E.B.
HOSPITAL SEAT
spittle and
white walls
stained by
such light
by sunlight
in paces aching
my rash haste
you turn
you cough
rain dropping
deliberate
and slow
Pythagorean drips
almond-shaped
beholden to
my need
stricken bare
this weary face
(O, wash down
the hurt)
I am spent
my hands
coming up
clean…
fleshly, pitted
with anger
this heat
is no lust
lest for blood
and how when
all is graying
whisper-thin
a thirsty mouth
I sicken myself
with tired want
and who soured
the spilt milk
lukewarm and
now pooling
on the tile
every misstep
O, were there
but words
to bandage
the wound
salt-free
and were there
but a pill…
this anger
the only thing
that tides me
pregnant with
the sea, its flow
and words
(hearts) aching
to be born
or born again
where hides
my compassion
in legs frail
under sheets
hot-compressed
I give way
to it—
who will clean
the spill
and why
did the sea
overflow
she turning
myself
overturning—
this night
such night
this pain
such pain
“Hospital Seat,” K.E.B.
