#poetryisalive
Deafened ears
Silent eyes
Rippled waters—
Reflecting murky skies
What remained
Laid in sullened tune
—With calla lilies
In godless demise
My organs wrung
Then clotheslined—
Like some
common rag
Discarded lungs—
Airbags for the worms
And my
once sharp tongue
Sits ’tween teeth
Delicately dead
This damp cavern
Punctured by
A singular watery tree
The branches splay
Beams of light
Where I lay—
Skin haloed
in mossy wreaths
Crank me
Jack-in-the-box
Cricks of rusty parts
As music tinkles
Softly
Through floorboards
Dusty as the attic
And the locked chest
From where it came
Your fingers could
Draw lines
Into the age
Of that wooden box,
The one
With a precarious lid
It delights in your touch
Waits for the skip
Of your heart
When anticipation
Is empty
And
P O P
.
.
.
.
The spring dashes
Firmly into your eye
A lone thing
Without a clown’s company