Tuesday, January 24, 2017

watch me as i stare

eyes wide,
caught off guard
by how
blank

the sky

her face

his hands

too blank
to blink
back
any sort of
bravery

caught up
caught off
guard by

sudden chilling
nakedness

eyes white as
sunshine
blinding

blank

when i heard of you:
how your breath
went

—stolen
slick—

my hands clutched at
memories
too blurry

to even pin
down
on new paper

but

the blankness
is what i remember most

which

strange—i feel
small things
so

monuments
marked by
marble statues
solid, firm

but this?

this holds no
thing this
holds nothing
this holds
me soft
as i
quiet flesh
slip
by

still blank

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