Non-fiction

 

         1:48

 

         the field grows

         animal returned

         robe hang

         break

         i sit on the kitchen floor with lights on

         somewhere something

         quiet in the middle of a city

 

 

         1:49

        

         hour by hour

         it changes

         temperature kind of

         hang jewelry by nails

        

         speakable

         i see someone and recognize

         the way they hold a cup

 

        

         1:50

 

         grated

         gray

         au gratin

         all the things that make me sick

         stand up and salute me

 

         before there was solitude there was together

         together was good because the bathroom mirror

         could be seen through a crack in the bathroom door

 

 

         1:52

 

         i was dancing in a bar when you ended the world

         we made

         a crop circle filled with false wheat

         what am i

         good for filling up with

 

 

         1:53

 

         brought

         not borrowed

         i'll never see my things again

         you left in the rain

         sitting on the kitchen floor

         legs

         i smell my own smell

         i can explain

Still Girl

 

in paper light i dreamed he called. i don't want to talk about this anymore.

how i can't see in the middle of day.

 

the dreams got worse. found boy and laid down. laid down with boy. 

couldn't leash or un-leash. it was all him and now.

 

i am a-dressing. piling up things. twisting leg. i am down in the light of.

pulling myself from dreaming. street moved itself. people rode. the back of me.

 

self-corner. he will remember my dark place. i will remember this time because it hurts. 

the night is still also. in its obvious still way. check mate.