We Live in Photographs as Ghosts
elongated shadows on the periphery of sunset panoramas, anonymous
elongated shadows on the periphery of sunset panoramas, anonymous
The film wrapped. His visa expired, but he remained by faking a British accent and taking a job under the table
every day break the sludge:
caffeine, wine, rapping
A touch of yellow sets off the light
on my forehead, where hair doesn’t cast a shadow.
Side by side we contemplate
Until, moldering unashamed,
We are carried away.
Your first words, first steps
trembling on uncertain ground
become false teeth and a walker
I know my bags were filled
with scraps of anger
still sharp enough to cause a paper cut on my hands
He struggled to compose himself,
while I watched. Some things
never change.
You didn’t plan on icy rain
touching your skin so unpleasantly.
So rudely, really.
how I twirl and slither
skither and skatter
in scented words of my own design.